Genesis 2:18

Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for this man to live alone. So I will make a helper to be with him.”

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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

17except one. This tree gives knowledge about what is good and what is bad and you mustn't eat its fruit. If you do eat it you will die the same day.”

19So Yahweh God took some soil and made animals and birds out of it. He brought the animals and birds to the man so that he could name them all.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:12The man said, “This woman you gave me, she gave me the fruit and I ate it.”

1 Timothy 2:11When the men teach the women, the women should not be proud but they should listen to them quietly.

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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