This first marriage, and the description of marriages to come, was the ideal pattern for all men and women to follow, a pattern with four points:

1. Each member of the union to be, separately, first knows God personally.
2. The man (not the woman) leaves his birth family and together with his wife they establish a new family unit. His primary allegiance is no longer to his parents but to her.
3. When the man leaves his parents to join his wife, his parents and all society is put on notice that here is a new family unit.
4. Because they are joined together in the presence of God, the church, the body of believers, recognizes their new family unit.

This is God's ideal for us. Genesis 2:25 is the high point of the passage of Genesis 2-3. They were naked before each other and unashamed before God.

GO DEEPER

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