Genesis 2:18-24
Proper 22B
18 Then the LordA GodB said, “It is not goodC that the manD should be alone;E I will make him a helperF as his partner.”G
19 So out of the groundH the Lord God formedI every animalJ of the fieldK and every birdL of the air,M
and brought them to the man to seeN what he would callO them; and whatever the man called every livingP creature,Q that was its name.R
20 The man gave names to all cattle,S and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not foundT a helper as his partner.
21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleepU to fall upon the man, and he slept;V then he took one of his ribsW and closed upX its placeY with flesh.Z
22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he madeAA into a womanBB and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said,
“This at lastCC is boneDD of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of ManEE this one was taken.”
24 Therefore a man leavesFF his father and his mother and clingsGG to his wife,HH and they become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked,II and were not ashamed.JJ
Image credit: “Adam and Eve in the Garden – Creation” at the Songea Cathedral in Tanzania, 20th century.