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.”

20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam¹ 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 made² into a woman and brought her to the man.