²⁷ So God created man ^(A)in His own image, in the image of God He created him; ^(B)male and female He created them. ²⁸ God blessed them; and God said to them, “^(C)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that ^[a]moves on the earth.”

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

²³ Then the man said,

^24 (B)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.