The First Marriage

A little girl went to Sunday school and heard the creation story. She couldn’t wait to get home to tell her Mom. She said “Mom, the teacher taught us about how God made the first man and the first woman. The man was lonely because he didn’t have anybody to talk to so God made him go to sleep and he pulled out his brain and made a woman. In Genesis 2 God put Adam under heavy aesthesia and performed the first surgery. He took a rib from Adam’s side. I think it’s worth noting that he did not take a bone from his foot or a bone from his head. He took a rib from his side (to me that represented her equality). God took Adam’s rib and he closed up the place with flesh and with the rib he made woman. Then he brought her to the Adam and he named her. He had already given names to all the animals and now he named her. Can you imagine what it was like for Adam to meet Eve for the first time? He had been alone for who knows how long. He had never seen a woman before. Never! He went to sleep and woke up and suddenly saw a beautiful woman. She was stunning and she didn’t have a stitch of clothes on! Genesis 2.23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,’ for she was taken out of man." Now when you read 2.23 you might get the impression that Adam calmly and clinically said “This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh … .” No! That was not the way he said it. It was not calm or clinical. He was excited. The first 3 words of v.23 “This is now” is actually a Hebrew exclamation--it was a shout and none of our English translations captures the significance of that word. The Living Bible comes close. The LB says “This is it!!! What Adam said was not “now” but WOW! EUREKA!! YABA DABA DOO!! Adam was overwhelmed. God saved the best for last. 2.24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. The first marriage was picture perfect. They were totally transparent. They had nothing to hide and nothing to fear. Honest, open, and innocent.