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23 So the man exclaimed,

“At last! This is
    bone from my bones
        and flesh from my flesh.
This one will be called ‘Woman,’
    because she was taken from Man.”[a]

24 (Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.) 25 Even though both the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about it.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:23 The Heb. roots for Man and Woman are identical.
  2. Genesis 2:25 The Heb. lacks about it