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Genesis 2:18 — And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I…

“And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
Genesis 2:18 · KJV

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The verses around Genesis 2:18.

16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

18And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

19And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

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Verse explanation

For the first time something in creation is called ‘not good’: the man being alone. God decides to make a helper fit for him, which leads to the events in the rest of the chapter.

From the Genesis 2 study in Bible in Stories.

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