2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them "Mankind"[1] when they were created.

Other Translations of Genesis 5:2

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them ManHebrew adam when they were created.

The Message

2 He created both male and female and blessed them, the whole human race.

New King James Version

2 He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.

New Living Translation

2 He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them "human."

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 5:2

Commentary on Genesis 5:1-5

(Read Genesis 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.