Genesis 2:23

And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

In Context

22And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

24For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

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Cross References

Judges 9:2Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.

2 Samuel 19:13And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!

Ephesians 5:28Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:22-25

The Formation of Eve; Marriage Instituted. ( b. c. 4004.) 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his… Read the whole commentary →

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