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Genesis 2:22

וַ יִּבֶן יְהוָה אֶלֹהִים אֶת הַ צֵּלָע אֲשֶׁר לָקַח מִן הָ אָדָם לְ אִשָּׁה וַ יְבִאֶהָ אֶל הָ אָדָם
And Yahweh elohim is building אֶת-the rib which he has taken hold from the Red-one to a Woman and is causing her to come in toward the Red-one.99
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brings her in toward. This verb in the causative Hiphil form with the following אֶלֿ means to be brought in or rather cause to come in toward. This is more specific than merely saying “brought to”. It is the second act of Yahweh elohim “causing to come in toward Adam” a helper. Where is “she” coming in to? To Adam, the head, the beginning (read John 1 again).

Some distinction is made between the male and female and the man and woman.

from the origin of creation, ‘He made them male and female. On account of this, a man will leave the father of himself and the mother, and be glued toward the woman of himself, and the two will be into the flesh of one. Therefore they are no more two, but one flesh.” Mark 10:6-8 literal