²² Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He ^[a]made into a woman, ^(A)and He ^(B)brought her to the man.

²³ And Adam said:

^24 (E)Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and ^(F)be^[d] joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

¹² Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

⁹ Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,

⁶ if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, ^(A)having faithful children not accused of ^[a]dissipation or insubordination.