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Genesis and Exodus lay the groundwork for the rest of the Bible—God’s creation, the Fall and the promise of salvation, the patriarchs, and journey out of Egypt and into the wilderness. In their commentary on Genesis and Exodus, John N. Oswalt and Allen P. Ross explore the central themes of these important books.

NOTES 2:18 I will make a helper. The word “helper” in this section is not a demeaning term at all; in the Bible it is used most frequently of God (Pss 33:20; 70:5; 115:9). When God helps people, it means he does for them what they cannot possibly do for themselves. In this context the word indicates that the woman would supply what man lacked and, by implication of the Hebrew behind the phrase, “just right for him,” that he would provide what she lacked. Together they would be complete and completely
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