Genesis 2:21-25
21So the Lord God caused a adeep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made ▼▼Hebrew built
into a woman and brought her to the man. 23Then the man said, “This at last is cbone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was dtaken out of Man.” ▼
24 fTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Genesis 5:2
2Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man ▼▼Hebrew adam
when they were created. Malachi 2:15
15 hDid he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? ▼▼Hebrew in it
And what was the one God ▼▼Hebrew the one
seeking? ▼▼Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?
lGodly offspring. So guard yourselves ▼▼Or So take care; also verse 16
in your spirit, and let none of you be nfaithless to the wife of your youth. Matthew 19:4
4He answered, o“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,Mark 10:6
6But pfrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them qmale and female.’1 Corinthians 11:8-9
8For rman was not made from woman, but woman from man. 9Neither was man created for woman, but swoman for man.
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