ezer kenegdo, “sustainer-beside-him.”2 God sees the problem, of course: “But for the human no sustainer beside him was found.” Perhaps, argues Terence Fretheim, the human “does not accept what God presents [the animals]; God accepts the human decision and goes back to the drawing board.”3 In any case, “the LORD God cast a deep slumber on the human,” and only then does the solitary and lonely human creature—up until now ambiguous in gender—become two separate and emphatically sexual creatures, male