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Genesis 5:2

What does Genesis 5:2 mean?

A plain-English look at Genesis 5:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

v.2This passage

v.3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 17:26

    and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

  • Mark 10:6

    But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

  • Genesis 1:27

    And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  • Malachi 2:15

    And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

  • Genesis 2:15

    And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  • Matthew 19:4

    And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

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