Genesis 2

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 for*2:18 Or corresponding to; also verse 20 him." 19 *ch. 1:20,24Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed*2:19 Or And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and *Ps. 8:6brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam*2:20 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 made*2:22 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

24 *Cited Matt. 19:5;Mark 10:7;1 Cor. 6:16;Eph. 5:31;[Ps. 45:10;1 Cor. 7:10,11]Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.