Genesis 2:18–25

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

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

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

The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;^h

she shall be calledⁱ ‘woman,’

for she was taken out of man.^j”

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united^k to his wife, and they will become one flesh.^l

The man and his wife were both naked,^m and they felt no shame.