Genesis 2:18-25

New International Reader's Version

¹⁸ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

¹⁹ The Lord God had formed all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He had made all of them out of the ground. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give them. And the name the man gave each living creature became its name. ²⁰ So the man gave names to all the livestock, all the birds in the sky, and all the wild animals.

But Adam didn’t find a helper that was just right for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused him to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs. Then the Lord God closed the opening in the man’s side. ²² Then the Lord God made a woman. He made her from the rib he had taken out of the man. And the Lord God brought her to the man.

²³ The man said,

²⁴ That’s why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. The two of them become one.

²⁵ Adam and his wife were both naked. They didn’t feel any shame.