Genesis 5:2 - Plain English Version

² And he made them men and women, and he called them human beings, and he was good to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² He created them male and female and blessed them and named them [both] Adam [Man] at the time they were created.

American Standard Version (1901)

² male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Common English Bible

² and created them male and female. He blessed them and called them humanity on the day they were created.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² He created them, male and female; and he blessed them. And he called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Genesis 5:2 Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God made people to be like himself. He made them man and woman.

Genesis 1:28

God was good to them, and he said to them, “You will have lots of kids, and the earth will be full of people. You people will be boss over all the earth. You will be boss over the fish in the sea, and you will be boss over the birds in the sky, and you will be boss over all the animals that live on the land.”

Genesis 2:15

God put the man into the garden in Eden and gave him some work to do. He had to look after the garden and make sure all the plants grew strong and healthy.

Genesis 2:23

The man looked at that woman, and he said, “This is really good. Now I have a mate. God took out a part of my body, and he made it into a mate for me. Yes, he used my rib bone to make her. God made her out of a man’s body, so I’m going to call her woman.”

Genesis 5:3

Adam lived a long time. He was 130 years old when he had his son called Seth. He was a human being, just like Adam, his father.

Mark 10:6

But God tells us in his book that he made people and everything else. His book says, ‘He made them man and woman.’

Acts 17:26

At first he just made one man, then later he made all of us from that man. All of us in every tribe everywhere were born into that man’s family. And God gave each tribe their own country, and he planned where they will live and how long they will live there.