Genesis 2:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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 a help meet for him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every [wild] beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

Common English Bible

²⁰ The human named all the livestock, all the birds in the sky, and all the wild animals. But a helper perfect for him was nowhere to be found.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And Adam called each of the living things by their names: all the flying creatures of the air, and all the wild beasts of the land. Yet truly, for Adam, there was not found a helper similar to himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.

Genesis 2:20 Cross References

Genesis 2:18

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

Genesis 2:21

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.

Psalm 8:7

all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;