Do Ladies Have More Ribs than Men?
- No, women and men have the same number of ribs.
- The Bible does not claim that men have less ribs than women.
- Men and women have 12 pairs of ribs for a total of 24 ribs which has reference to the 12 apostles of the Lamb and the 24 elders seen in heaven.
- This belief is taken from the biblical account of God taking a rib from the side of Adam and closing up the flesh.
- This is interesting because just as in modern-day surgeries, if you remove a rib, it doesn't make your subsequent children have one less rib. It just makes it the case for you.
- Do ladies have more ribs than men? No. Men and women today have the same number of ribs.
God Takes Rib From Adam To Form Eve in Genesis 2
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He [h]made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
23 And Adam said:
“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called [i]Woman,
Because she was taken out of [j]Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be[k] joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Conclusion: Do Men Have Fewer Ribs Than Women?
Scientifically and Biblically, men and women have the same number of ribs today. Extraction of a rib from Adam does not mean the removal of a rib from all men following Adam. Only a genetic change would warrant that assumption, and according to the Biblical text, it was a surgical extraction, and x-rays of 24 ribs in both men and women prove this to be the case.
