Genesis Chapter 2 verse 22 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 2:22

and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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BBE Genesis 2:22

And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.
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DARBY Genesis 2:22

And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man.
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KJV Genesis 2:22

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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WBT Genesis 2:22

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, he made woman, and brought her to the man.
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WEB Genesis 2:22

He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
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YLT Genesis 2:22

And Jehovah God buildeth up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;
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Genesis 2 : 22 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he (literally, builded into; aedificavit, Vulgate; ὠκοδόμησεν, LXX.) a woman. The peculiar phraseology employed to describe the formation of Adam s partner has been understood as referring to the physical configuration of woman s body, which is broadest towards the middle (Lyra); to the incompleteness of Adam's being, which was like an unfinished building until Eve was formed (Calvin); to the part of the female in building up the family (Delitzsch, Macdonald), to the building up of the Church, of which she was designed to be a type (Bonar); - yet it may be doubted if there is not as much truth in the remark that "by the many words used in the generation of mankind, as creating (Genesis 1:27), making (Genesis 1:26), forming and inspiring (Genesis 2:7), and now building, Moses would set forth this wondrous workmanship for which the Psalmist so laudeth God," Psalm 139:14 (Ainsworth). And brought her unto the man. I.e. led, conducted, and presented her to Adam. "The word implies the solemn bestowment of her in the bonds of the marriage covenant, which is hence called the covenant of God (Proverbs 2:17); implying that he is the Author of this sacred institution" (Bush). On awaking from his slumber Adam at once recognized the Divine intention, and joyfully welcomed his bride.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) Made he a woman.--Heb., he built up into a woman. Her formation is described as requiring both time and care on the heavenly artificer's part. Thus woman is no casual or hasty production of nature, but is the finished result of labour and skill. Finally, she is brought with special honour to the man as the Creator's last and most perfect work. Every step and stage in this description is intended for the ennoblement of marriage. Woman is not made from the adamah, but from the adam. She is something that he once had, but has lost; and while for Adam there is simply the closing of the cavity caused by her withdrawal, she is moulded and re-fashioned, and built up into man's counterpart. She brings back more than the man parted with, and the Creator Himself leads her by the hand to her husband. The anthropomorphic language of these early chapters is part of that condescension to human weakness which makes it the rule everywhere for inspiration to use popular language. He who made heaven and earth by the fiat of His will must not be understood as having literally moulded the side taken from Adam as a sculptor would the plastic clay; nor did He assume human form that He might place her at man's side. Much of this may indeed have been represented to Adam's mind in the trance into which he had fallen; but the whole narrative has a nobler meaning, and the practical result of its teaching was that neither woman nor marriage ever sank into that utter degradation among the Jews which elsewhere aided so greatly in corrupting morals and men.