Genesis 2:23

World English Bible (2000)

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

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  • Eph 5:28-30 : 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
  • 1 Cor 11:8-9 : 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man; 9 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
  • Gen 29:14 : 14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.
  • Judg 9:2 : 2 "Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, 'Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."
  • 2 Sam 5:1 : 1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
  • 2 Sam 19:13 : 13 Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'"

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  • Gen 2:18-22
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    18 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

    19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

    20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

    21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

    22 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

  • Gen 2:24-25
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    24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

    25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

  • Matt 19:4-6
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    4 He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

    5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

    30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

    31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

    32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

  • Gen 3:19-23
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    19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

    20 The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

    21 Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

    22 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

    23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

  • Mark 10:6-9
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    6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

    7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

    8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

  • 1 Cor 11:8-9
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    8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

    9 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.

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    13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

    14 Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.

    2 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name "Adam," in the day when they were created.

  • 27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

  • 1 The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."

  • 12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

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    11 Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

    12 For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

  • Gen 3:16-17
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    16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

    17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

  • 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  • 25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."

  • 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

  • 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  • 2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

  • 22 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.