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In the beginning, God created Eve from the side of Adam. This expresses a nuptial meaning; God is the creator of man and marriage…
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “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.” Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. Gen 2:21-24
Note the marital context of the last sentence. The nuptial binding of man and woman as husband and wife is a three step process: