Genesis 2
After God made Adam from the dust, he set him in the garden (2:15) and gave him the responsibility to cultivate and keep it.
He also told him that it was not good for man to be alone and that He would make a helper suitable for him. It must have been interesting for Adam to then begin the process of naming the animals as God brought them to him, because He was in the process of looking for a helper.
When it became apparent that there was none for him, God put him to sleep, removed a rib, and fashioned his helper.
As he awoke, God brought her to him. When Adam says “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,” it literally speaks to the reality that not one of the animals shared his bone structure, nor had the type of flesh he did. But she did, and he was relieved (“At last!”).
She was anatomically unique from him in many important ways, but in these two he could see that she was like him; “bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”
And even in the name the man (Ish) gives for her as woman (Ishah), we see the similarity that allows them to become one flesh, as well the difference necessary for the union to be possible.
He also told him that it was not good for man to be alone and that He would make a helper suitable for him. It must have been interesting for Adam to then begin the process of naming the animals as God brought them to him, because He was in the process of looking for a helper.
When it became apparent that there was none for him, God put him to sleep, removed a rib, and fashioned his helper.
As he awoke, God brought her to him. When Adam says “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,” it literally speaks to the reality that not one of the animals shared his bone structure, nor had the type of flesh he did. But she did, and he was relieved (“At last!”).
She was anatomically unique from him in many important ways, but in these two he could see that she was like him; “bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”
And even in the name the man (Ish) gives for her as woman (Ishah), we see the similarity that allows them to become one flesh, as well the difference necessary for the union to be possible.
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