Genesis 5:2

He created one man and one woman. He blessed them, and on the day that he created them, he called them ‘human beings’.

Translation for Translators

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

1Here is a list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans, he caused them to be like him in many ways.

3When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who grew up to be just like him. That was the son he named Seth.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:15Yahweh God took the man and put him in Eden park/garden to till/cultivate it and take care of it.

Malachi 2:15It is certainly [RHQ] Yahweh who joined you together. Your spirits and your bodies belong to him. So what he wants [RHQ] from you are godly children. So make sure that each of you men remain ◄with/loyal to► the woman that you married when you were young.

Mark 10:6Remember that he also wrote that, when God first created people, he made one man, and one woman to become that man’s wife.

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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