Gen 2:21, 23-24 | ESV | STEP | So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man , and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh .

b ch. 29:14; Judg. 9:2; 2 Sam. 5:1; 19:13; [Eph. 5:28-30]

eCited Matt. 19:5; Mark 10:7; 1 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 5:31; [Ps. 45:10; 1 Cor. 7:10, 11]

Genesis 2:21

21 So 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.

Genesis 2:23-24

23 Then the man said,

“This at last is ^bbone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was ^ctaken out of Man.” ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike}
24 ^eTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.