21 So the Lord God put Adam into a deep sleep and as he slept the Lord God removed one of Adam’s ribs and closed up the place where he took it with body tissue. 22 The Lord God made a woman, using the rib he’d taken from Adam, and presented her to Adam.

23 "Finally!" said Adam. "Here is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man."*