Genesis 5:2

Zachar and nekevah He created them; and blessed them, and called the shem of them “Adam,” in the yom when they were created.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Sefer Toldot Adam. In the yom that barah Elohim Adam, in the demut Elohim He made him;

3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty shanah and fathered in his own demut and after his tzelem (image) and called shmo Shet:

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Cross References

Genesis 2:15And Hashem Elohim took the adam and put him in the Gan Eden la'avod (to till, to work) it and to be shomer over it.

Malachi 2:15And did not Hashem make echad? 1 And the remnant of the ruach is Hashemʼs. 1 And why echad? 1 That He might seek zera Elohim. 1 Therefore be shomer of your ruach, 1 and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 1

Mark 10:6But in the beginning of the Beriah (Creation) ZACHAR UNEKEVAH BARA OTAM ([ Hashem] made them male and female). + 10:6 Gn 1:27; 5:2

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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