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Genesis 5:2

Adam
Creation

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

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

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

4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

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BSB
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
KJV
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
WEB
He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
ASV
male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
DARBY
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
BLB
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them and called their name “Man,” in the day they were created.
ÅB
Til mann og kvinne skapte han dem; og han velsignet dem og gav dem navnet menneske på den dag de ble skapt.
OTB
Han skapte dem som mann og kvinne, og velsignet dem. Han kalte dem "Menneske" den dagen de ble skapt.
B1930
Til mann og kvinne skapte han dem; og han velsignet dem og gav dem navnet menneske på den dag de blev skapt.

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Cross references

  • Matthew 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,

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  • Mark 10:6

    But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

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  • Genesis 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.

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  • Malachi 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 of his youth.

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  • 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.

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  • Genesis 2:15

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

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  • 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;

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