Up to Genesis 2:18 everything that God has done has been good, and God has pronounced His own benediction upon it. Here for the first time we find a malediction, something that is not good. God looks at Adam and says, “It is not good for man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). Out of this judgment comes the creation of one who is to be Adam’s wife and companion. The passage concludes, “So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man and He brought her to the man” (verses 21, 22).
