Genesis 2:19-24 New International Version
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals(A) and all the birds in the sky.(B) He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called(C) each living creature,(D) that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam[a] no suitable helper(E) was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;(F) and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[b] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[c](G) he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;(H)
she shall be called(I) ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.(J)”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united(K) to his wife, and they become one flesh.(L)
Footnotes
- Genesis 2:20 Or the man
- Genesis 2:21 Or took part of the man’s side
- Genesis 2:22 Or part
Cross references
- Genesis 2:19 : Ps 8:7
- Genesis 2:19 : S Ge 1:20
- Genesis 2:19 : S Ge 1:5
- Genesis 2:19 : Ge 1:24
- Genesis 2:20 : Ge 3:20; 4:1
- Genesis 2:21 : Ge 15:12; 1Sa 26:12; Job 33:15
- Genesis 2:22 : 1Co 11:8, 9, 12; 1Ti 2:13
- Genesis 2:23 : Ge 29:14; Eph 5:28-30
- Genesis 2:23 : S Ge 1:5
- Genesis 2:23 : 1Co 11:8
- Genesis 2:24 : Mal 2:15
- Genesis 2:24 : Mt 19:5*; Mk 10:7-8*; 1Co 6:16*; Eph 5:31*
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