The book of Genesis records that the woman later named Eve was created the same day he was created. God brought Eve to Adam, and they became husband and wife before sunset that very evening. Eve got her name from the fact that she was the mother of all living. No other individuals then existed. God's inspired Word, the only inspired record of this event, says clearly that Adam's first and only wife was Eve.

On the sixth day God formed the beasts of the earth, cattle, and every creeping thing according to their kinds. He then declared His intention to create man in His own image and likeness, granting male and female dominion over the fish, birds, cattle, and all living things that move upon the earth. God created man in His image, blessed them, and commanded them to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. He saw that everything He had made was very good, marking the completion of the sixth day. The heavens and the earth and all their host were finished on the following day when God ended His work and rested. The last act before that rest was the formation of woman from man's rib and the establishment of marriage, so that the two became one flesh. This sequence established the pattern in which the Sabbath was given to nurture the relationship between husband and wife. The man formed from the dust and the woman taken from his side served as the type of Christ and the wife He would receive. God thereby placed the perfected helpmate at the threshold of the sanctified seventh day, providing the time and setting in which that union could be cultivated in unity and strength supplied by Him alone.