18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; ⁿI will make him a helper fit for¹ him.” 19 ^oNow out of the ground the Lord God had formed² every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and ^pbrought 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 Adam³ there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a ^qdeep 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 made⁴ into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

24 ^tTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.