Genesis 2:18 - It is not good for the man to be alone

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

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

Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

Genesis 2:18

Commentary

God first created a pair of human beings, a man and a woman. His first command to them was, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth" (Gen. 1:28). By putting this couple together, God instituted marriage, the most basic of all social relationships. Marriage enabled humankind to fulfill God's command to rule and replenish the earth (Gen. 1:28). God made both the male and the female in His image, each with a special role and each complemented by the other. Genesis 2 tells us that God created the man first. Then, using a rib from the man, God made a "help meet for him" (Gen. 2:18). When God brought Eve to Adam, He joined them together and said, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Gen. 2:24).

Packer, J.I. ; Tenney, Merrill Chapin ; White, William: Nelson's Illustrated Manners and Customs of the Bible. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 1997, c1995, S. 432