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This one will be called woman [isha], because from man [ish] this one was taken.
Instead of the Masoretic Text's ish ('man'), the Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Targum Onkelos all read ishah, "her husband". The pun works either way, but, in my highly subjective opinion, "because this one was taken from her husband" works better than the MT version.
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