Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsmale 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.”
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.
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)