Genesis 2:23
Good News Translation
Then the man said, "At last, here is one of my own kind--Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. 'Woman' is her name because she was taken out of man."

New Revised Standard Version
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”

Contemporary English Version
and the man exclaimed, "Here is someone like me! She is part of my body, my own flesh and bones. She came from me, a man. So I will name her Woman!"

New American Bible
the man said: “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man this one has been taken.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

bone.

Genesis 29:14 He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

Judges 9:2 Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone, and your flesh.

2 Samuel 5:1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Samuel 19:13 And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army before me always in the place of Joab.

Ephesians 5:30 Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.

flesh.

Genesis 2:24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Woman.

1 Corinthians 11:8,9 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. . . .

taken.

1 Corinthians 11:8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

Man.

Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
22And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. 23And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.24Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.…
Cross References
Ephesians 5:28
So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

Genesis 29:14
He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

Genesis 2:22
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