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For the first man didn’t come from woman, but the first woman came from man.

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13 For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve.

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21 So 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[a] and closed up the opening. 22 Then 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.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2:21 Or took a part of the man’s side.

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