Genesis 2:16-25

16Then the Lord God told the man, ‘You may eat the fruit from any tree in the garden, as much as you like.

17But you must not eat any fruit from the tree that gives knowledge of good and evil. If you do eat fruit from that tree, that day you will certainly die.’

18Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a helper who is right for him.’

19The Lord God took soil from the ground and he made all the animals and birds. He brought them to the man. God wanted to know what names the man would call them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.

20So the man gave names to the farm animals, to the birds in the sky and to all the other animals. But none of these animals was the right helper for the man.

21So the Lord God caused the man to sleep. While the man was sleeping, God took a rib from the man. Then he closed up the place in his body and he covered it again.

22The Lord God used the man's rib to make a woman. He brought the woman to the man.

23Then the man said, ‘Finally, this is someone who is right for me. She has bones that are taken from my bones. Her body comes from my body. I will call her “woman” because God used me, a man, to make her.’

24Because of this, when a man marries, he leaves his father and his mother. Instead, God joins the man and his wife together. The two people become as one body.

25The man and his wife were not wearing any clothes. But they did not feel ashamed.