Holy Scripture
Genesis 2:24
A church father on this verse
“There were more ribs in Adam, and hands that knew no weariness in God; but not more wives in the eye of God. And accordingly the man of God, Adam, and the woman of God, Eve, discharging mutually (the duties of) one marriage, sanctioned for mankind a type by (the considerations of) the authoritative precedent of their…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
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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.
— Genesis 2:24 —
25And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.