18 Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a helper who is right for him.’
2:18The helper was someone to live with the man. She would be the right person for him and would help him.
19 The 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. 20 So 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. 21 So 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. 22 The Lord God used the man's rib to make a woman. He brought the woman to the man.
2:21The Lord God caused the man to sleep. The man did not just sleep because he was tired. He would sleep like that until God made him wake.
2:21A rib is a bone in the side of someone's body. God made the woman from the rib that he took from the man.
23 Then 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.’
24 Because 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.
2:24This verse tells us about how a man and his wife should live after their marriage. They become a new family that is separate from their parents' families.
25 The man and his wife were not wearing any clothes. But they did not feel ashamed.
