23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. …
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. …
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
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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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