Genesis 5:2

a male and a female He hath prepared them, and He blesseth them, and calleth their name Man, in the day of their being prepared.

Young's Literal Translation

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] an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;

3And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth [a son] in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:15And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

Malachi 2:15And He did not make one [only], And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what [is] the one [alone]! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

Mark 10:6but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

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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