Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper […]
⛓ Read Genesis 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Verses 8-9 ('man is not from woman, but woman from man... neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man') paraphrase the formation of woman from Adam's rib and as a helper fit for him. Explicit appeal to the order of creation; very high volume and coherence.
High confidenceThe making of the woman from the man's side as a helper, after the man, supplies the order of formation Paul invokes ('then Eve'). The sequence of creation, with woman fashioned after and from Adam, is the load-bearing premise of his appeal. The passage is quoted in substance.
High confidence