English Standard Version

Genesis 2:16-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

16. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

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

18. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

19. Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens 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 livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.