Genesis 2:20-25

²⁰He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him. ²¹So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening. ²²Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man. ²³“At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’” ²⁴This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. ²⁵Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

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