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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; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken
from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam 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. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the
man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
The Creator made the human female from the bone of a
male. Woman is the only creature not made directly from the ground. She was
made from material already present in the man. What is truly important about
this passage is the fact that this is the pattern for marriage before God, the
union of a man and a woman as one flesh, this
union being the consummation of the marriage.
There are a great many sermons to be had in this passage but I will try to
avoid sermonizing so as not to take away from what the text literally says.
Suffice it to say that many days of sorrow could have been avoided in a young
man or woman’s life if they had gone to sleep in a manner of speaking and let
God bring them a mate and many an unhappy marriage could have been happier if a
young man or a young woman had been capable of leaving the control of their
mother and father to start a new life together.
In their original state of innocence the man and the
woman had no sense of shame for their nakedness. There were no inhibitions for
them in that regard.
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