Genesis 5:2

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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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BSBPD

“Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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 · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 5:2 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 1:27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
  2. Genesis 2:15Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
  3. Genesis 2:23And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
  4. Malachi 2:15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
  5. Matthew 19:4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
  6. Mark 10:6However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
  7. Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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