Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
KJV
Masculum et feminam creavit eos, et benedixit illis : et vocavit nomen eorum Adam, in die quo creati sunt.
Vulgate
ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν αὐτούς, καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτούς. καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν Ἀδάμ, ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησεν αὐτούς.
LXX
male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
ASV
זָכָ֥ר וּ/נְקֵבָ֖ה בְּרָאָ֑/ם וַ/יְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹתָ֗/ם וַ/יִּקְרָ֤א אֶת שְׁמָ/ם֙ אָדָ֔ם בְּ/י֖וֹם הִבָּֽרְאָֽ/ם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
בָּר֥וּךְ
brvk
verb · 324×
וֹ
v
noun · 848×
זְּכָרִֽים
zkrym
noun · 82×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
ם
m
verb · 53×
נְקֵבָ֖ה
nqbh
noun · 22×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2331"God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human race in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion."114 "God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them";115 He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multi…
Chapter 17.—Of the Two Fathers and Leaders Who Sprang from One Progenitor. Since, then, Adam was the father of both lines,—the father, that is to say, both of the line which belonged to the earthly, and of that which belonged to the heavenly city,—when Abel was slain, and by his death exhibited a marvellous mystery, there were henceforth two lines proceeding from two fathers, C…
Cross-references
- 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;
- Gen 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Gen 2:15 — And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Gen 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.
- Mal 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
- Mark 10:6 — But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
- Mark 10:6 — But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
- Matt 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,
- Matt 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,