Genesis 2:15–25

¹⁵Then the Lord God took ⁴the man and put him in the garden of Eden to ⁵tend and keep it. ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; ¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ^uyou shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it ^vyou ⁶shall surely ^wdie.”

¹⁸And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; ^xI will make him a helper comparable to him.” ^19yOut of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and ^zbrought them to ⁷Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. ²⁰So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

²¹And the Lord God caused a ^adeep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. ²²Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He ⁸made into a woman, ^band He ^cbrought her to the man.

²³And Adam said:

“This is now ^dbone of my bones

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called ⁹Woman,

Because she was ^etaken out of ¹Man.”

^24fTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and ^gbe ²joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

^25hAnd they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ⁱashamed.