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18 Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a helper who is right for him.’[a]

19 The Lord God took soil from the ground and he made all the animals and birds. He brought them to the man. God wanted to know what names the man would call them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name. 20 So the man gave names to the farm animals, to the birds in the sky and to all the other animals.

But none of these animals was the right helper for the man.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:18 The helper was someone to live with the man. She would be the right person for him and would help him.