Genesis 2:16–23

¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;^{n 17}but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,^o for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”^p

¹⁸The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”^q

¹⁹Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals^r and all the birds in the sky.^s He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called^t each living creature,^u that was its name. ²⁰So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam^f no suitable helper^v was found. ²¹So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;^w and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs^g and then closed up the place with flesh. ²²Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib^hx he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

²³The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;^y

she shall be called^z ‘woman,’

for she was taken out of man.^a”