How did God make the woman from Adam's rib 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, bringing her to the man. Adam identified her as bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh, called her woman because she was taken out of man.
Les teaches that Paul is reaching back to Genesis when he says two shall be one flesh. In Genesis 2:21, the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam; He took one of Adam's ribs and closed up the flesh. From that rib God made a woman and brought her unto the man. Adam said she was bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh, and she was called woman because she was taken out of man. Les notes the Hebrew connection: man is ish, and woman is ishah, with an A added. Verse 24 then says a man shall leave his father and mother, cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh—the truth Paul rests on.
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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