Genesis 2:19-21

New Catholic Bible

¹⁹ The Lord God therefore formed every sort of wild animal and all the birds of the air, and he brought them before the man to see what he would name them.^[a] Whatever the man called each living creature, that was the name that it would bear. ²⁰ The man gave names to every type of animal, all the birds of the air and all the wild animals, but the man could not find anything that was like him.

²¹ The Lord God therefore caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. He took one of his ribs and replaced it with flesh.