Not a minor error. Not a slip of the pen. A translation decision made in the fourth century that shaped how half the world has understood the origin of women for seventeen centuries — and is still shaping it now.

In Episode 4, we go into the surgery of Genesis 2:21 and find the word underneath the English that changes everything. Tsela — translated as rib in virtually every major Bible since Jerome's Latin Vulgate — means side. Half of the original. Not a spare part taken from Adam's surplus, but a whole side removed from the whole. Which means the woman built from it is not derivative. She is constitutive. The man after the surgery is incomplete without her in a way that is as real and as significant as her incompleteness without him.

We trace the translation history from the Septuagint through Jerome through Tyndale through ...