²¹ So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;^(A) and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs^[a] and then closed up the place with flesh. ²² Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib^[b](B) he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

²³ The man said,

⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’^[a]?^(A)

⁸ and the two will become one flesh.’^[a](A) So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^[a](A)