Genesis 2:15–25

¹⁵Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

¹⁶The Lord God ^acommanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

¹⁷but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ¹eat, for in the day that you eat from it ^ayou will surely die.”

¹⁸Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^aI will make him a helper ¹suitable for him.”

^19aOut of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the ¹sky, and ^bbrought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

²⁰The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the ¹sky, and to every beast of the field, but for ²Adam there was not found ^aa helper ³suitable for him.

²¹So the Lord God caused a ^adeep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

²²The Lord God ¹fashioned into a woman ^athe rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

²³The man said,

“^aThis is now bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh;

¹She shall be called ²Woman,

Because she was taken out of ³Man.”

^24aFor this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

^25aAnd the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.