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What does Genesis 2:18 mean?

"Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”"

— Genesis 2:18 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

15

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

16

Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

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but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

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The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

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Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

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