18Yahweh God said, |It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.|


In Context

15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, |Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.|

18 Yahweh God said, |It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.|

19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

Genesis 2:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:18The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help meet for him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:18And Jehovah God saith, 'Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper — as his counterpart.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.