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22 Then the Lord God formed the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 So the man exclaimed,

“At last! This is
    bone from my bones
        and flesh from my flesh.
This one will be called ‘Woman,’
    because she was taken from Man.”[a]

24 (Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:23 The Heb. roots for Man and Woman are identical.