Genesis 2:18–25

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”

²⁴That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united^b to his wife, and they become one flesh.^c

²⁵Adam and his wife were both naked,^d and they felt no shame.