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Genesis 2:23
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Genesis 2:23
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Then the man said, "This at last is
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bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was
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taken out of Man."
[a]
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So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
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And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
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Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
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Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
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1.
Genesis 29:14
;
Judges 9:2
;
2 Samuel 5:1
;
2 Samuel 19:13
; [
Ephesians 5:28-30
]
2.
1 Corinthians 11:8
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[a].
The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.