“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…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — On Exhortation to Chastity
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24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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.
— Genesis 2:24 —
25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.