Genesis 2:18-25,
New Revised Standard Version
Marriage and Sexuality Established
as Good
by God
18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will
make him a helper as his partner."
19 So out of the ground the LORD God
formed
every animal of the field and every
bird
of the air, and brought them to the
man to
see what he would call them; and whatever
the man called every living creature,
that
was its name.
20 The man gave names to all cattle,
and
to the birds of the air, and to every
animal
of the field; but for the man there
was not
found a helper as his partner.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep
to
fall upon the man, and he slept; then
he
took one of his ribs and closed up
its place
with flesh.
22 And the rib that the LORD God had
taken
from the man he made into a woman and
brought
her to the man.
23 Then the man said, "This at
last
is bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh;
this one shall be called Woman, for
out of
Man this one was taken."
24 Therefore a man leaves his father
and
his mother and clings to his wife,
and they
become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both
naked,
and were not ashamed.
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