Genesis 2

21 So the Lord God caused a *ch. 15:12;1 Sam. 26:12deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made*2:22 Hebrew built into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

"This at last is *ch. 29:14;Judg. 9:2;2 Sam. 5:1;19:13;[Eph. 5:28-30] bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called Woman,

because she was *1 Cor. 11:8taken out of Man."*2:23 The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike

24 *Cited Matt. 19:5;Mark 10:7;1 Cor. 6:16;Eph. 5:31;[Ps. 45:10;1 Cor. 7:10,11]Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.