Genesis
2:18-25
(18) Then the LORD God said,
"It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit
for him."
(19) So out of the ground the LORD
God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought
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 there was not found a helper fit for him.
(21) So the LORD God caused a deep
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 into a woman and brought her to the man.
(23) Then the man said, "This
at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man."
(24) Therefore a man shall leave
his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one
flesh.
(25) And the man and his wife were
both naked and were not ashamed.