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Genesis 2:21-24

Bone of My Bones

Eden and One Flesh · Genesis 2

Story guide: The woman is brought beside the man; recognition becomes covenant, clinging, and one flesh.

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21So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

22And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, he built into a woman, and he brought her to the man.

23Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called woman, because from man she was taken.”

24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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