Genesis 2:20-22 New English Translation

²⁰So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam^[a] no companion who corresponded to him was found.^[b] ²¹So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep,^[c] and while he was asleep,^[d] he took part of the man’s side^[e] and closed up the place with flesh.^[f] ²²Then the Lord God made^[g] a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

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Genesis 2:20 tn Here for the first time the Hebrew word אָדָם (ʾadam) appears without the article, suggesting that it might now be the name “Adam” rather than “[the] man.” Translations of the Bible differ as to where they make the change from “man” to “Adam” (e.g., NASB and NIV translate “Adam” here, while NEB and NRSV continue to use “the man”; the KJV uses “Adam” twice in v. 19).
Genesis 2:20 tn Heb “there was not found a companion who corresponded to him.” The subject of the third masculine singular verb form is indefinite. Without a formally expressed subject the verb may be translated as passive: “one did not find = there was not found.”
Genesis 2:21 tn Heb “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man.”
Genesis 2:21 tn Heb “and he slept.” In the sequence the verb may be subordinated to the following verb to indicate a temporal clause (“while…”).
Genesis 2:21 tn Traditionally translated “rib,” the Hebrew word actually means “side.” The Hebrew text reads, “and he took one from his sides,” which could be rendered “part of his sides.” That idea may fit better the explanation by the man that the woman is his flesh and bone.
Genesis 2:21 tn Heb “closed up the flesh under it.”
Genesis 2:22 tn The Hebrew verb is בָּנָה (banah, “to make, to build, to construct”). The text states that the Lord God built the rib into a woman. Again, the passage gives no indication of precisely how this was done.

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