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23 The human[a] said,

“This one finally is bone from my bones
        and flesh from my flesh.
She will be called a woman[b]
        because from a man[c] she was taken.”

24 This is the reason that a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife, and they become one flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:23 Or man (Heb adam)
  2. Genesis 2:23 Or wife (Heb ishshah)
  3. Genesis 2:23 Or husband (Heb ish)

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