Holy Scripture
Genesis 2:23
A church father on this verse
“To these men who spent their lives in the practice of holiness, there is to be added a great multitude of the elect, who, having through envy endured many indignities and tortures, furnished us with a most excellent example. Through envy, those women, the Danaids and Dircae, being persecuted, after they had suffered t…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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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21And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.
22And God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
— Genesis 2:23 —
24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
25And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.