Thirdly, a man must put his wife’s interest above all others, even his parents. He will leave his father and mother, not by going to live elsewhere but by putting his very important duty to care for them (Ex. 20:12) second to his duty to look after his wife (cf. Eph. 5:25–29). Fourthly, the wife is under the authority of her husband: he names her woman (23) and later Eve (3:20), just as earlier he had named the animals (19). This concept of the man’s head-ship is taken for granted elsewhere in the