Gen 2:23
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. {Woman: Heb. Isha} {Man: Heb. Ish}
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So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we {are} thy bone and thy flesh.
Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether {is} better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, {which are} threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I {am} your bone and your flesh. {Whether...: Heb. What is good? whether, etc}
And Laban said to him, Surely thou {art} my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. {the space...: Heb. a month of days}
And say ye to Amasa, {Art} thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with {them} according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to {her} husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of {her} husband.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made {them} at the beginning made them male and female,
Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. {Eve: Heb. Chavah: that is Living}
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
And Laban said to him, Surely thou {art} my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. {the space...: Heb. a month of days}
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Ye {are} my brethren, ye {are} my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?