Genesis 2:15-20

Good News Translation

¹⁵ Then the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it. ¹⁶ He told him, “You may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden, ¹⁷ except the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.^[a] You must not eat the fruit of that tree; if you do, you will die the same day.”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him.” ¹⁹ So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names. ²⁰ So the man named all the birds and all the animals; but not one of them was a suitable companion to help him.