Genesis 2:19-21

International Children’s Bible

¹⁹ From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky. He brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky and to all the wild animals. But Adam^[a] did not find a helper that was right for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply. While the man was asleep, God took one of the ribs from the man’s body. Then God closed the man’s skin at the place where he took the rib.