The Creation of Woman

Gen 2:18-25

Genesis 2:18 (KJV 1900)

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

God took note of a discrepancy in his creation. Man did not have a suitable opposite to be companion with.

This is not to say that God was not aware of his plan. For it was God’s will for all of creation to reproduce after its kind. So we see that it was in God’s will already to create a woman. But why did God wait?

Bringing all of the animals for Adam to name brought forth a loneliness that caused Adam to desire God’s pre planned will. This is a model of how God works. God will create a desire for his will in us.

“Alone”

part, portion, apart from. Is used in various scriptures to denote when something is separated from it’s group.

“Help Meet”

This helper would not be a slave but an assistant. Eve was to be one that contributed to the fulfillment of an effort or purpose. One of their purposes was to replenish and subdue the earth. Adam could not do that alone.

The word meet in Hebrew denotes that which is opposite but that which corresponds in front of; one’s opposite.

Exodus 18:2–4 (KJV 1900)

Genesis 2:19 (KJV 1900)

19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

Adam named the animals because God gave him dominion over them. Man did not come from animals. And man is not a type of animal.

The diminishing of man’s essence is a means by which people try to divorce our lineage with God in creation.

Genesis 2:20 (KJV 1900)

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.

It seems as if the presenting of the animals with their mates to Adam as he named them brought about a glaring need and a major question of “what about me?”

God gave Adam the pattern of companionship and procreation but waited until last to reveal his portion.

Genesis 2:21–25 (KJV 1900)

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

God took from Adam to create Eve. God formed pairs of animals but for mankind, God took the female from the male and now both male and female come from the female in reproduction.

Why didn’t God form Eve from the ground as a counterpart to Adam?

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

God brought the woman before Adam as a suitable counterpart. God loved and favored Adam. God was truly blessing him and providing for his needs and wants.

God brought the woman before Adam as if to see his reaction.

Adam waxes poetic. He immediately realized their differences and similarities.

What made her suitable was that she could be what Adam was not in order to complete the purpose that God had set. It reminds me of a puzzle piece that fits perfectly.

Adam named her just as he had named the animals. But she was not an animal but yet Adam exercised that same authority.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.