Scripture · Old Testament
Genesis 5:2
Genesis 5:2 is verse 2 of Genesis chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
Cited in Matthew 19:4 and Mark 10:6
Hebrew Adam
King James Version
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
World English Bible
He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
“Adam” and “Man” are spelled with the exact same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated either way.
Read in context
Genesis 5:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
2 Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
3 When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
4 And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 1:27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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.
Genesis 2:15Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
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.”
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.