how did God make the woman in Genesis 2?
God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, took one of his ribs, closed up the flesh, and from that rib made the woman and brought her to the man. Adam declared her bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh, woman because taken out of man.
Les teaches that in Genesis chapter 2, God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam. While Adam slept, God took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. From that rib, God made the woman and brought her unto the man. Adam then 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.” Les notes that the Hebrew word for man is ish, and the word for woman is ishah, with an A added on the last, because she was taken out of man. This one-flesh relationship is what Paul later rests on in verse 24, where a man leaves his father and mother, cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
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