Genesis 2:15-25

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵ Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it. ¹⁶ The Lord God ^(A)commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; ¹⁷ but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ^[a]eat, for on the day that you eat from it ^(B)you will certainly die.”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(C)I will make him a helper ^[b]suitable for him.” ^19 (D)And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and ^(E)brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for ^[c]Adam there was not found ^(F)a helper ^[d]suitable for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a ^(G)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. ²² And the Lord God ^[e]fashioned into a woman ^(H)the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,

^24 (J)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. ^25 (K)And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.