Genesis
2:21 ¶ 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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