Gen 2:22 | NET2full | STEP | Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man , and he brought her to the man .

‏ Genesis 2:22

22 Then the Lord God made ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew verb is בָּנָה (banah, “to make, to build, to construct”). The text states that the Lord God built the rib into a woman. Again, the passage gives no indication of precisely how this was done.} a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.