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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. Today we have the advantage of understanding our own very
imperfect process of cloning one individual from another. 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 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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