Genesis 2:23

23 Then the man said,

This at last is rbone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called Woman,

because she was staken out of Man.1

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Genesis 29:14
and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.

Judges 9:2
“Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”

Ephesians 5:28–30
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.

1 Corinthians 11:8
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.


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