18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; 1 Cor. 11:9;1 Tim. 2:13I will make him a helper fit for2:18 Or corresponding to; also verse 20 him." 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam2:20 Or the man there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a ch. 15:12;1 Sam. 26:12deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made2:22 Hebrew built into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,
"This at last is ch. 29:14;Judg. 9:2;2 Sam. 5:1;19:13;[Eph. 5:28-30] bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was 1 Cor. 11:8taken out of Man."2:23 The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike