Genesis 2:15–25

¹⁵The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,^{p 17}but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”^{q 18}Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding^r to him.” ¹⁹The 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.^s And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man^E no helper was found corresponding to him. ²¹So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man,^t and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. ²²Then the Lord God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.^{u 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.^v

²⁴This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.^{w 25}Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.