the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (2:15–17), God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him” (2:18). So He created Eve to assist Adam in ruling an undefiled world: “The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh at that place. And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man” (vv. 21–22). Upon meeting his wife,