Gen 2:15-24 | EE | STEP | The LORD God put the man into the Garden of Eden. The man was to work on the ground and work in the garden.

Genesis 2:15-24

15 The LORD God put the man into the Garden of Eden. The man was to work on the ground and work in the garden. 16 Then the LORD God told the man, ‘You can eat the fruit from any tree in the garden. 17 But you must not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The day when you eat this fruit you will die.’

18 Then the LORD God said, ‘The man should not be alone. I will make a helper for him.’ ^{▼▼2:18 The helper was someone to live with the man and help him.}

19 The LORD God had made all the animals and birds. He made them from the ground. And he brought them to the man to hear what names the man would give them. Whatever the man called each living thing would be its name. 20 So the man gave names to the livestock, the birds of the air, and all the other animals.

But the man did not find a helper. 21 So the LORD God made the man go to sleep. While the man was sleeping, the LORD God took a rib from the man. Then he closed up the place that he took the rib from. He closed up that part of the man’s body with skin. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman.

23 Then the man said to God, ‘At last, this is one like me. She has bones taken from my bones. And her body is from my body. I will call her “woman” because God took her out of a man.’ 24 Because of this, a man will leave his father and mother to be with his wife. And the two people will become like one person. ^{▼▼2:24 The LORD God made the man sleep. This is not the same as the man going to sleep because he wants to. The man will not wake up until God lets him.} ^{▼▼2:24 A rib is a bone inside the middle of the body. God made woman from the rib that he took from the man. And he brought the woman to the man. Verse 24 God wanted men to leave their mother and father. He wanted them to marry a woman. The man and the woman would become a separate family.}