“And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.””
Genesis 2:23
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- The Breath of Life: How Close God Came in Genesis 2
What is the deep sleep in Genesis 2:21?
The deep sleep is tardemah (H8639), a sleep God Himself sends, so that God does the making while the man lies still. The same sleep fell on Abram while God moved between the pieces and cut the covenant alone (Genesis 15:12). The word marks the moments where God does the decisive work and the human can only receive it.
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When Laban greeted Jacob (Genesis 29:14), he used the old kinship formula, literally you are my etsem (H6106) and my basar (H1320), my bone and my flesh. It is the language of Adam over Eve here. Yet Laban's household kept idols, so Jacob had come to family who shared his blood and kept other gods.
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