By giving them both one name, he noteth the inseparable conjunction of man and wife.
Historical and theological verse study from Book of Genesis, Chapter 5.
Apply the spiritual lesson of Genesis 5:2 through prayerful reflection and faithful obedience.
“Gracious Father, write the truth of Genesis 5:2 upon my heart by the power of Your Holy Spirit. Amen.”
“He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”
“Masculum et feminam creavit eos, et benedixit illis : et vocavit nomen eorum Adam, in die quo creati sunt.”
“Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”
“Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.””
“He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them “Adam”.”
“male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”
By giving them both one name, he noteth the inseparable conjunction of man and wife.
By giving them both one name, he noteth the inseparable conjunction of man and wife.
Adam: the common name of mankind, made to the likeness of God. (Haydock)
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; 2 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 a 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: 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Verses 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.
“And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.”
“And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.”
“And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.”