Genesis 2:18–25

¹⁸Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; ⁿI will make him a helper fit for⁶ him.” ^19oNow out of the ground the Lord God had formed⁷ every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and ^pbrought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. ²⁰The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam⁸ there was not found a helper fit for him. ²¹So the Lord God caused a ^qdeep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. ²²And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made⁹ into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³Then the man said,

“This at last is ^rbone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called Woman,

because she was ^staken out of Man.”¹⁰

^24tTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. ²⁵And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.