Genesis 2:18

And Jehovah God saith, 'Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper — as his counterpart.'

Young's Literal 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

17and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it — dying thou dost die.'

19And Jehovah God formeth from the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heavens, and bringeth in unto the man, to see what he doth call it; and whatever the man calleth a living creature, that [is] its name.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:12and the man saith, 'The woman whom Thou didst place with me — she hath given to me of the tree — and I do eat.'

Proverbs 18:22[Whoso] hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

1 Corinthians 7:36and if any one doth think [it] to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin — let him marry.

1 Timothy 2:11Let a woman in quietness learn 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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