18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.” l 19 So the Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. m And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man n no helper was found as his complement. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, o and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. 22 Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. p 23 And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone

and flesh of my flesh;

this one will be called “woman,”

for she was taken from man. q

24 This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh. r