Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to live by himself. I am going to make a partner to help him with his work.”

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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

17But you must not eat fruit from the tree that lets people know what is good and what is bad. If you eat fruit from that tree you will die.”

19So the Lord God took ground and made all the animals and all the birds. Then he took them to the man to find out what he would call them. Whatever the man called an animal, that was its name.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:12The man answered, “Yes, I did eat the fruit. That woman you gave me. She's the one, she gave it to me.”

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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