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Genesis 2:23

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And Adam 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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  1. Genesis 2:21

    And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

  2. Genesis 2:22

    And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

  3. Genesis 2:24

    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  4. Genesis 2:25

    And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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