Genesis 2:23

The man said, 1 “This time, this one is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. 1 She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of man.”

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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

22With the rib that Yahweh God had taken from the man, he made a woman and brought her to the man.

24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, he will be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

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Cross References

Judges 9:2“Please say this, so that all the leaders in Shechem may hear, 'Which is better for you, that all seventy sons of Jerub Baal rule over you, or that just one rule over you?' Remember that I am your bone and your flesh.”

2 Samuel 19:13Then say to Amasa, 'Are you not my flesh and my bone? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not captain of my army from now on in the place of Joab.'”

Ephesians 5:28In the same way husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves 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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