Genesis 2:18–25

¹⁸Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him.” 

¹⁹The Lord God had formed all the wild animals and all the birds out of the ground. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each creature became its name. ²⁰So the man named all the domestic animals, all the birds, and all the wild animals. 

But the man found no helper who was right for him. ²¹So the Lord God caused him to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. ²²Then the Lord God formed a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man. He brought her to the man. 

²³The man said, 

“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. 

She will be named woman 

because she was taken from man.” 

²⁴That is why a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and they will become one flesh. ²⁵The man and his wife were both naked, but they weren’t ashamed of it.