For this reason...

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Woman was created from 

    the rib of man.

Not from his head was she

    created to be above him.

Not from his feet

    to be trampled upon.

She was created from his side

    to be equal to him.

From under his arm

    to be protected by him.

From close to his heart

    to be loved by him.

~author unknown

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Genesis 2:15-25

..."Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, 

“From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 

you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it 

you will surely die.”

Then the Lord God said, 

“It is not good for the man to be alone; 

I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 

Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 

The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

The man 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.”

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed."

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