Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh
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καὶ εἶπεν Ἀδάμ Τοῦτο νῦν ὀστοῦν ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῆς σαρκός μου· αὕτη κληθήσεται Γυνή, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς ἐλήμφθη αὕτη.
The man's first recorded words in the Bible — and its first poem, a line of Hebrew parallelism carried straight through into the Greek. αὕτη κληθήσεται Γυνή, "this one shall be called Woman," plays on the Hebrew אִשָּׁה (ishah, "woman") drawn from אִישׁ (ish, "man") — a pun the Greek ἀνήρ/γυνή pair does not itself reproduce (they are unrelated words), so the Greek text states the etymology as fact (ἐκ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς, "out of her man/husband") rather than showing it in the sound of the words themselves.
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