Genesis 2:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and the man saith, `This `is' the `proper' step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

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  • Eph 5:28-30 : 28 so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love; 29 for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly, 30 because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;
  • 1 Cor 11:8-9 : 8 for a man is not of a woman, but a woman `is' of a man, 9 for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;
  • Gen 29:14 : 14 and Laban saith to him, `Only my bone and my flesh `art' thou;' and he dwelleth with him a month of days.
  • Judg 9:2 : 2 `Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the masters of Shechem, Which `is' good for you -- the ruling over you of seventy men (all the sons of Jerubbaal), or the ruling over you of one man? -- and ye have remembered that I `am' your bone and your flesh.'
  • 2 Sam 5:1 : 1 And all the tribes of Israel come unto David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, `Lo, we `are' thy bone and thy flesh;
  • 2 Sam 19:13 : 13 And to Amasa say ye, Art not thou my bone and my flesh? Thus doth God do to me, and thus He doth add, if thou art not head of the host before me all the days instead of Joab.'

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