Genesis 5:2

He created them male and female created, and blessed them, and called their name Adam.

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In The King James Version

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

In Context

1This is the list of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created human beings, he made them in his own image.

3Adam lived for a hundred and thirty years, and had a son in his own likeness, after his image; and named him Seth.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:15Then the Lord God took the human and placed him in the garden of Eden to till it and to care for it.

Malachi 2:15Did not the one God make everyone, so that all both flesh and spirit is his? And what does that one God seek but godly children? Therefore keep watch over your spirit, and let none of you deal faithlessly with the wife of your youth.

Mark 10:6but, at the beginning of the Creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:2-6

Genealogies. ( b. c. 3852.) 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 And all the days that… Read the whole commentary →

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