He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
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He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
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Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
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male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
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Passages linked to Genesis 5:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 19:4 He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from 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 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
- Genesis 1:27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Malachi 2:15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
- Genesis 2:15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
- Acts 17:26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 2. Male and female created he them. This clause…
2. Male and female created he them. This clause commends the sacred bond of marriage, and the inseparable union of the husband and the wife. For when Moses has mentioned only one, he immediately afterwards includes both under one name. And he assigns a common name indiscriminately to both, in order that posterity might learn more sacredly to cherish this connection between each other, when they saw that their first parents were denominated as one person. The trifling inference of Jewish writers, that married persons only are called Adam, (or man,) is refuted by the history of the creation; nor truly did the Spirit, in this place, mean anything else, than that after the appointment of marriage, the husband and the wife were like one man. Moreover, he records the blessing pronounced upon them, that we may observe in it the wonderful kindness of God in continuing to grant it; yet let us know that by the depravity and wickedness of men it was, in some degree, interrupted.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain By giving them both one name, he noteth the…
By giving them both one name, he noteth the inseparable conjunction of man and wife.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them; and…
Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Ver. 2. Male and female created he them.] The Jews at this day have base conceits of women: as that they have not so divine a soul as men; that they are of a lower creation, made only for the propagation and pleasure of man, &c. {a} And therefore they suffer them not to enter the synagogue, but appoint them a gallery without. Thus “they err, not knowing the Scriptures.” {Mat 22:29} {See Trapp on "Gen 2:22"}
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{a} Blunt’s Voyage, p. 122.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See Gen 1:26; Mat 19:4; Mar 10:6. He
See Gen 1:26; Mat 19:4; Mar 10:6. He
blessed them with power to propagate their kind, and with other blessings. See Gen 1:28.
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Called their name Adam; which name is given both to every man, as Gen 9:6; Psa 49:20, and to the first man, as Gen 2:23, and to the whole kind, both the man and the woman, who are called by one name, to show their intimate union and communion in all things.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Male and female created he them,.... Adam and Eve,…
Male and female created he them,.... Adam and Eve, the one a male, the other a female; and but one male and one female, to show that one man and one woman only were to be joined together in marriage, and live as man and wife for the procreation of posterity; and these were not made together, but first the male, and then the female out of him, though both in one day:
and blessed them; with a power of propagating their species, and multiplying it, and with all other blessings of nature and providence; with an habitation in the garden of Eden; with leave to eat of the fruit of all the trees in it, but one; with subjection of all the creatures to them, and with communion with God in their enjoyments:
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and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created; which, as Philo (s) observes, signifies "earth"; and according to Josephus (t) red earth, out of which Adam was made; and as soon as he was made, this name was imposed upon him by God, to put him in mind of his original, that he was of the earth, earthly; and the same name was given to Eve, because made out of him, and because other marriage with him, and union to him; on that account, as ever since, man and wife bear the same name: wherefore I should rather think the name was given them from their junction and union together in love; so the name may be derived from the Arabic word (u) signifying to "join": though some think they had it from their beauty, and the elegance of their form (w), being the most fair and beautiful of the whole creation. The names of Adam and Eve in Sanchoniatho (x), as translated into Greek by Philo Byblius, are Protogonos, the first born, and Aeon, which has some likeness to Eve: the name of the first man with the Chinese is Puoncuus (y).
(s) Leg. Allegor. l. 1. p. 57. (t) Antiqu. l. 1. c. 1. sect. 2. (u) "junxit, addiditque rem rei---amore junxit", Golius, col. 48. (w) "pulcher fuit, nituit", Stockius, p. 13. Vid Ludolph. Hist. Ethiop. l. 1. c. 15. (x) Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 1. p. 34. (y) Martin. Hist. Sinic. l. 1. p. 3.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain He called their name Adam - He gave this…
He called their name Adam - He gave this name both to the man and the woman. Being at first one by nature, and afterwards one by marriage; it was fit they should both have the same name, in token of their union. See note - part two at - "ver. 1"
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 5:2. He called their name Adam — He…
Gen 5:2. He called their name Adam — He gave this name both to the man and the woman. Being at first one by nature, and afterward one by marriage, it was fit they should both have the same name in token of their union.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Adam: the common name of mankind, made to the…
Adam: the common name of mankind, made to the likeness of God. (Haydock)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 2. Called their name Adam — Adam, אדם, is…
2. Called their name Adam — Adam, אדם, is the Hebrew word for man, and the reference is to Gen_1:26, Let us make אדם. Adam means man of the soil: our word man, (Sanscrit, manuscha, Latin, reeds, Saxon, gemynd,) signifies thinking being. Man and woman were one at creation; their name was Adam.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. male and female, &c.] This clause is repeated…
2. male and female, &c.] This clause is repeated from Gen_1:27.
blessed them] From Gen_1:27. The words of the command, “be fruitful and multiply,” &c., which accompanied the blessing, are not repeated; they are implied in the genealogy that follows.
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called their name Adam] Better than marg. “called their name Man.” That God gave the name “man” (Heb. adam) is not recorded in ch. 1. The proper name is probably here intended; but, if so, we should read “his name,” as the LXX, τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 5:2 male and female . . . “human” (Hebrew…
5:2 male and female . . . “human” (Hebrew ’adam): See 1:27 and study note. • blessed them: See 1:28 and study note.
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