For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Parallel translations
- KJV For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
- BSB For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.
- NKJV For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
- NASB For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.
- NLT For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve.
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Cross-references · 5
- Gen 2:18Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
- 1 Cor 11:8–9For man is not from woman, but woman from man;
- Gen 2:22Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
- Gen 1:27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Gen 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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