Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5:2 in other translations
| BSB | Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.” |
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| WEB | He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam. |
| ASV | male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. |
| BBE | Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made. |
| Webster | Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. |
What does Genesis 5:2 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 5:1-5
Adam was made in the image of God; but when fallen he begat a son in his own image, sinful and defiled, frail, wretched, and mortal, like himself. Not only a man like himself, consisting of body and soul, but a sinner like himself. This was the reverse of that Divine likeness in which Adam was made; having lost it, he could not convey it to his seed. Adam lived, in all, 930 years; and then died, according to the…
Genesis 5:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 5:2
- Matthew 19:4
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
- Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
- Genesis 2:23
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
- Malachi 2:15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
- Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
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Context
- Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis 5:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Varón y hembra los crió; y los bendijo, y llamó el nombre de ellos Adam, el día en que fueron criados. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il les créa mâle et femelle, et les bénit; et il appela leur nom Adam, au jour où ils furent créés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mann und Weib schuf er sie, und er segnete sie und gab ihnen den Namen Mensch, an dem Tage, da sie geschaffen wurden. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Masculum et feminam creavit eos, et benedixit illis: et vocavit nomen eorum Adam, in die quo creati sunt. |