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There are two distinct stories of creation in the first part of Genesis written at different times/places and combined into the current version. The first says only this about male and female relations: Genesis 1:27-28 "27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.'"
Nothing about marriage, sex for pleasure, etc; only about increasing the population of humans. The second story is quite different from the first. After no suitable 'helper' was found, God knocked Adam out and pulled out a rib. This is all that is said after that: Genesis 2:23-24 "23 The man said,
'This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman, [11] '
for she was taken out of man.'
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."
You could interpret that as a marriage with all that word implys in our context or you could interpret it as saying the same thing the first story did about a means to increase human population, not a law on relationships. The 'uniting' being sex and the 'one flesh' being the children created by that union.
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