Woman


“This at last is bone of my bones / and flesh of my flesh; / she shall be called Woman, / because she was taken out of Man.” - Genesis 2:23

Creation

God saw the man needed a helper, and He formed every beast and bird out of the ground but found no helper fit for him. So He caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, took a rib, closed up its place with flesh, and made it into a woman. The man took her as his wife.

(Genesis 2:18-23)

Marriage

a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. - Genesis 2:24

Woman, who was taken out of Man, is fit to be man's helper. (Genesis 2:22-23)

When the sons of God began to take wives from among the daughters of man, God limited man's days to 120 years and destroyed the wicked generation and the corrupt earth with a flood. (Genesis 6)

Fall

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” The serpent tested the woman, asking, "Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?" She replied, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” The serpent said, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

She noticed the tree was good for food, a delight for the eyes, and could make her wise, so she shared its fruit with her husband. Their eyes were opened, and they knew they were naked and tried to cover themselves with fig leaf loincloths.

When God was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, the man and woman hid among the trees. He called, "Where are you," and the man answered that he was afraid because he was naked. God asked who told him that, and he claimed the woman had given him the forbidden fruit. She blamed the serpent's deception, so ultimately, God cursed her to have a desire contrary to her husband who rules over her and to have greater pain in childbearing. However, He also cursed the serpent's offspring to ultimately be defeated by her offspring.

The man called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living, and God clothed them both in garments of skins. He sent the couple out of Eden and guarded the way back with the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way so that they could not eat of the tree of life and live forever.

(Genesis 3)

Corruption of the Earth

Man multiplied in the earth, and the sons of God took wives from among the daughters of man. The Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them.

The Lord saw man's wickedness, continually evil heart, and violence, and said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them."

He preserved man through Noah, a righteous man, blameless in his generation.

(Genesis 6)