Genesis 2:18

And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

In Context

17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

19And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought [them] to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:12And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

Proverbs 18:22Whoso hath found a wife hath found a good thing, and hath obtained favour from Jehovah.

1 Corinthians 7:36But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:17-18

The Tree of Knowledge Prohibited. ( b. c. 4004.) 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Observe here, I. God's authority over man, as a creature that had reason and freedom of will. The Lord God commanded the man, who stood now as a public person, the father and representative of all mankind, to receive law, as he… Read the whole commentary →

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