22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. …
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-25)Here we have, I. The making of the woman, to be a help-meet for Adam. This was done upon the sixth day, as was also the placing of Adam in paradise, though it is here mentioned after an account of the seventh day’s rest; but what was said in general (Gen. 1:27), that God made man male and female, is more distinctly related here. Observe, 1. That Adam was first formed, then Eve (1 Tim. 2:13), and s…
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