Gen 2:20
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. {gave: Heb. called}
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And the LORD God said, {It is} not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. {meet...: Heb. as before him}
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. {residue: or, excellency} {godly...: Heb. seed of God} {treacherously: or, unfaithfully}
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; {All...: Heb. Flocks and oxen all of them}
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. {Eve: Heb. Chavah: that is Living}
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest {to be} with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.