The \textsc{Lord} God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I
will make a helper suited to him. So the \textsc{Lord} God formed out of the
ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the air, and he
brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the
man called each living creature was then its name. The man gave names
to all the tame animals, all the birds of the air, and all the wild
animals; but none proved to be a helper suited to the man.

So the \textsc{Lord} God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was
asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with
flesh. The \textsc{Lord} God then built the rib that he had taken from the
man into a woman. When he brought her to the man, the man said:

“This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
This one shall be called \emph{woman,}
for out of man this one has been taken.”

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife,
and the two of them become one body.
