Genesis 5:2
◄  Genesis 5:2  ►
New International Version (©2011)
He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them "Mankind" when they were created.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them "human."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them man.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Creating them male and female, he blessed them and called them humans when he created them.

NET Bible (©2006)
He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them "humankind."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He created them male and female. He blessed them and called them humans when he created them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

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

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

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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, and called their name "Adam," in the day when they were created.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:1-5 Adam was made in the image of God; but when fallen he begat a son in his own image, sinful and defiled, frail, wretched, and mortal, like himself. Not only a man like himself, consisting of body and soul, but a sinner like himself. This was the reverse of that Divine likeness in which Adam was made; having lost it, he could not convey it to his seed. Adam lived, in all, 930 years; and then died, according to the sentence passed upon him, To dust thou shalt return. Though he did not die in the day he ate forbidden fruit, yet in that very day he became mortal. Then he began to die; his whole life after was but a reprieve, a forfeited, condemned life; it was a wasting, dying life. Man's life is but dying by degrees.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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:

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, Colossians 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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The Descendants of Adam
1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: …

Matthew 19:4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'
Mark 10:6 "But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'
Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Genesis 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.