Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Mark 10:6 in other translations
| BSB | However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ |
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| WEB | But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. |
| ASV | But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. |
| YLT | but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; |
| DARBY | but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. |
| BBE | But from the first, male and female made he them. |
| Webster | But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. |
What does Mark 10:6 mean?
Barnes' Notes
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 10:1-12
Wherever Jesus was, the people flocked after him in crowds, and he taught them. Preaching was Christ's constant practice. He here shows that the reason why Moses' law allowed divorce, was such that they ought not to use the permission; it was only for the hardness of their hearts. God himself joined man and wife together; he has fitted them to be comforts and helps for each other. The bond which God has tied, is not…
Mark 10:6 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 10:6
- 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 5:2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Genesis 2:20-23
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 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 2:14-16
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 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. For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
- 2 Peter 3:4
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
- Mark 13:19
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
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Context
- Mark 10:5
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
- Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
- Mark 10:7
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Mark 10:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pero al principio de la creación, varón y hembra los hizo Dios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | mais au commencement de la création, Dieu les fit mâle et femelle: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | von Anfang der Schöpfung aber schuf Gott sie Mann und Weib. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ab initio autem creaturæ masculum et feminam fecit eos Deus. |