Genesis 2:18

Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

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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 from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not eat, for on the day that you eat from it, you will surely die.”

19Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Proverbs 18:22He who finds a wife finds a good thing 1 and receives favor from Yahweh. 1

1 Corinthians 7:36But if anyone thinks that he is not treating his fiancée with respect—if she is beyond the age of marriage and it must be so—he should do what he wants. He is not sinning. They should marry.

1 Timothy 2:11A woman should learn in silence and with all submission.

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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