Genesis 2:14-25

English Standard Version

¹⁴ And the name of the third river is the ^(A)Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵ The Lord God took the man ^(B)and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, ¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ^(C)you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat^[a] of it you ^(D)shall surely die.”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; ^(E)I will make him a helper fit for^[b] him.” ^19 (F)Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed^[c] every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and ^(G)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^[d] there was not found a helper fit for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a ^(H)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^[e] into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,

^24 (K)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.