This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman,” for she was taken out of man. (v. 23) The word play on woman and man in English reflects the wordplay in Hebrew where the ishshah was taken out of the ish. The poem gives way to the narrative description of the new relationship between the man and the woman. This newly founded relationship has three parts, begininning with leaving parents, then a union of husband and wife, and finally becoming one flesh. Even though