Gen 2:23-24 | ESV | STEP | Then the man said , This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh ; she shall be called Woman , because she was taken out of Man .

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

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

Genesis 2:23-24

23 Then the man said,

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