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Genesis
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
19 Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And 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 heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Talk Sheet Questions
What do Genesis 2:24-25 (ESV) say about marriage and the relationship between husband and wife?
Why are Adam and his wife described as “both naked and not ashamed” (Genesis 2:25, ESV)? What does this say about their relationship with each other and God?
How does God building woman from man’s side (Genesis 2:21-22, ESV), rather than from dust or another source, show how they are complementary?
Adam and Eve felt no shame before sin, how does this differ with your experience?
How does the idea that man and woman are fit for each other or correspond to each other help you think about how we are to live in the world?
How does this story point us to the One Story and the good news?
Prayer
Pray that God would mend all the brokenness that you are reminded of when you read this story of an unbroken marriage.