Neither was man created for woman, but (A)woman for man.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:18 Or corresponding to; also verse 20

23 Then the man said,

“This at last is (A)bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
    because she was (B)taken out of Man.”[a]

24 (C)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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  1. Genesis 2:23 The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike

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[a] there was not found a helper fit for him.

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  1. Genesis 2:20 Or the man

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