15 The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and care for it. 16 The Lord God ordered Adam, "You are free to eat fruit from every tree in the garden, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because the day you eat from it you are certain to die."
18 Then the Lord God said, "It’s not good for Adam to be alone. I will make someone to help him, someone that’s like him."
19 The Lord God used the ground to make all the wild animals, and all the birds. He took them all to Adam to see what he would call them, and Adam named every living creature. 20 Adam gave names to all the livestock, all the birds, and all the wild animals. But Adam didn’t find anyone like him who could help him.
21 So the Lord God put Adam into a deep sleep and as he slept the Lord God removed one of Adam’s ribs and closed up the place where he took it with body tissue. 22 The Lord God made a woman, using the rib he’d taken from Adam, and presented her to Adam.
23 "Finally!" said Adam. "Here is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man."2:23. "Man": a different Hebrew word is used here and in the following verse.
24 This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined2:24. "Joined": literally, "clings to," or "sticks together with." to his wife, and the two become one being. 25 Adam and his wife Eve2:25. See note under 2:7. were both naked, but they weren’t embarrassed about it.