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Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary (Steinmann) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God’s promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel. It traces God’s pledge of a Savior through Abraham’s line down to his great-grandson Judah. It serves as a foundation for the New Testament and its teaching that Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promise to save humankind from sin and death. In this Tyndale Commentary, Andrew Steinmann...

18–20. God sees the need for the man to have a helper who will correspond to him (vv. 18, 20). The word helper does not imply inferiority: God is often called a helper for humans (Exod. 18:4; Ps. 10:14; 27:9; 40:17; 118:7). In addition, God simply assumes that the man will provide names for the various types of animals (v. 19), since the man was created in God’s image, and God gave names to various parts of creation (1:5, 10). 21–22. God took from the man a rib—a word that is used elsewhere to describe
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