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."2:23. "Man": a different Hebrew word is used here and in the following verse.
24 This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined2:24. "Joined": literally, "clings to," or "sticks together with." to his wife, and the two become one being.
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