18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; (A)I will make him a helper fit for[a] him.”

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  1. Genesis 2:18 Or corresponding to; also verse 20

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”(A)

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21 So the Lord God caused a (A)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made[a] into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

“This at last is (B)bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
    because she was (C)taken out of Man.”[b]

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  1. Genesis 2:22 Hebrew built
  2. Genesis 2:23 The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike

21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;(A) and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[a] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[b](B) he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;(C)
she shall be called(D) ‘woman,’
    for she was taken out of man.(E)

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  1. Genesis 2:21 Or took part of the man’s side
  2. Genesis 2:22 Or part

Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man[a] when they were created.

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  1. Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam

He created them(A) male and female(B) and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created.

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  1. Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam

15 (A)Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?[a] And what was the one God[b] seeking?[c] (B)Godly offspring. So guard yourselves[d] in your spirit, and let none of you be (C)faithless to the wife of your youth.

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  1. Malachi 2:15 Hebrew in it
  2. Malachi 2:15 Hebrew the one
  3. Malachi 2:15 Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?
  4. Malachi 2:15 Or So take care; also verse 16

15 Has not the one God made you?(A) You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[a](B) So be on your guard,(C) and do not be unfaithful(D) to the wife of your youth.

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  1. Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.

He answered, (A)“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

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“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a](A)

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  1. Matthew 19:4 Gen. 1:27

But (A)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them (B)male and female.’

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“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](A)

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  1. Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27