21. deep sleep--probably an ecstasy or trance like that of the
prophets, when they had visions and revelations of the Lord, for the
whole scene was probably visible to the mental eye of Adam, and hence
his rapturous exclamation.
took one of his ribs--"She was not made out of his head to
surpass him, nor from his feet to be trampled on, but from his side to
be equal to him, and near his heart to be dear to him."
JFB.
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