2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Sometimes God is like your old aunt, always trying to get you hitched.
In case it wasn't absolutely clear that there was only one man before, we're reminded of that here.
"Help meet" isn't a common or clear term. It sounds more like "swap meet", but apparently just means "mate". Both in the British sense and not.
As I said, "It is not good that the man should be alone" kind of sounds like your aunt or grandmother. But the "not good" is a little interesting since we've been talking about the knowledge of good and evil. So, does it just mean, "I feel like interfering", or does it mean "fundamentally evil" or "could be better" or "I'm obsessed with reproduction" like the authors of the previous chapter? It is not clear.
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As you said, this line is not very clear at all, "I will make him an help meet for him." I think they meant "mate" but meet has been circulating for so long that it as become a concrete word in Genesis.
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