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22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

‘This at last is bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,[a]
    for out of Man[b] this one was taken.’

24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:23 Heb ishshah
  2. Genesis 2:23 Heb ish

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