Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him;
amale and female he created them.
Genesis 2:20-23
20The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam ▼▼Or the man
there was not found a helper fit for him. 21So the Lord God caused a cdeep 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 ebone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was ftaken out of Man.” ▼
Genesis 5:2
2Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man ▼▼Hebrew adam
when they were created. Malachi 2:14-16
14 iBut you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord jwas witness between you and the wife of your youth, kto whom lyou have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 15 mDid 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?
qGodly offspring. So guard yourselves ▼▼Or So take care; also verse 16
in your spirit, and let none of you be sfaithless to the wife of your youth. 16“For tthe man who does not love his wife but divorces her, ▼▼Hebrew who hates and divorces
says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers ▼▼Probable meaning (compare Septuagint and Deuteronomy 24:1–4); or “The Lord, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce, and him who covers
his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and wdo not be faithless.”
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