Genesis 2:18 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 2:18

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

KJV

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ASV

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

WEB

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

YLT

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

DBT

And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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19 verses on the floor

Ecclesiastes 4:9–12
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Proverbs 18:22
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:7–12
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(2.) The commencement of the kingdom of grace, in the sanctification of the sabbath day, ver. 3. He rested on that day, and took a complacency in his creatures, and then sanctified it, and appointed us on that day to rest and take a complacency in the Creator; and his rest is in the fourth commandment made a reason for ours after six days labour.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

it is not good for the man to be alone--In the midst of plenty and delights, he was conscious of feelings he could not gratify. To make him sensible of his wants,

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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