Holy Scripture

Genesis 2:21

A church father on this verse
“It is certain that, from the very beginning of his nature, man was impressed with these instincts (of sleep). (Genesis 2:21). If you receive your instruction from God, (you will find) that the fountain of the human race, Adam, had a taste of drowsiness before having a draught of repose; slept before he laboured, or ev…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — A Treatise on the Soul

Source: Septuagint

Original

21And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.

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19And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it.

20And Adam gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild beasts of the field, but for Adam there was not found a help like to himself.

— Genesis 2:21 —

22And God formed 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 her husband.

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