²⁶ Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’

¹⁸ The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’

²² Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib^[a] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.