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Genesis 2:23

American Standard Version

And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

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Genesis 2:23 in other translations

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.”

Genesis 2:23 · World English Bible

Genesis 2:23 in context

  1. 21And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:
  2. 22and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
  3. 23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
  4. 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  5. 25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.