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23 Then the man said,

“This one, at last, is bone of my bones
        and flesh from my flesh.
    This one is called woman,
        for from man was taken this one.”

24 This is why a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife; and they become one flesh.[a]

From Innocence to Shame

25 Now both of them were naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:24 cf. Matt. 19:5.