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21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; 22 and the rib which 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;
she shall be called Woman,[a]
    because she was taken out of Man.”[b]

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Footnotes

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

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