Genesis 2:21-24

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.”
The Hebrew words for  woman (ishshah) and  man (ish) sound alike

24 fTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Matthew 19:5

5and said, gTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and hthe two shall become one flesh’?

Ephesians 5:31

31 iTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and jthe two shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:33

33However, klet each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she lrespects her husband.

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