Genesis 2:18
“¶ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.”
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Genesis 2:18 Context
16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of euery tree of the garden thou mayest freely eate. 17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and euill, thou shalt not eate of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. 18¶ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him. 19And out of þe ground the LORD God formed euery beast of the field, and euery foule of the aire, and brought them vnto Adam, to see what he would call them: and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof. 20And Adam gaue names to all cattell, and to the foule of the aire, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam there was not found an helpe meete for him.
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Other Translations for Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
- King James Version
Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
- Basic English Bible
And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.
- Darby Bible
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help meet for him.
- Webster's Bible
Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- World English Bible
And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'
- Youngs Literal Bible
And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Genesis 2:18
2:18-20 It is not good that man - This man, should be alone - Though there was an upper world of angels, and a lower world of brutes, yet there being none of the same rank of beings with himself, he might be truly said to be alone. And every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air God brought to Adam - Either by the ministry of angels, or by a special instinct that he might name them, and so might give a proof of his knowledge, the names he gave them being expressive of their inmost natures.