Genesis 2:14-24

14 The name of the third river is Tigris. This is the one that flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to farm the land and to take care of it.
16 The LORD God commanded the man. He said, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden.
17 But you must never eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because when you eat from it, you will certainly die."
18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."
19 The LORD God had formed all the wild animals and all the birds out of the ground. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each creature became its name.
20 So the man named all the domestic animals, all the birds, and all the wild animals. But the man found no helper who was right for him.
21 So the LORD God caused him to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, the LORD God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
22 Then the LORD God formed a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man. He brought her to the man.
23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She will be named woman because she was taken from man."
24 That is why a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and they will become one flesh.
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