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But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’(A)

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“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](A)

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  1. Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27

27 So God created humans[a] in his image,
    in the image of God he created them;[b]
    male and female he created them.(A)

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  1. 1.27 Heb adam
  2. 1.27 Heb him

27 So God created(A) mankind(B) in his own image,(C)
    in the image of God(D) he created them;
    male and female(E) he created them.(F)

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Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and called them humans[a] when they were created.(A)

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  1. 5.2 Heb adam

He created them(A) male and female(B) and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created.

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  1. Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam

Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath

When God began to create[a] the heavens and the earth,(A)

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  1. 1.1 Or In the beginning God created

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died,[a] all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”(A)

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  1. 3.4 Gk our fathers fell asleep

They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?(A) Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”(B)

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14 You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.(A) 15 Did God[a] not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.[b](B) 16 For I hate[c] divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and covering one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.

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  1. 2.15 Heb he
  2. 2.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 2.16 Cn: Heb he hates

14 You ask,(A) “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness(B) between you and the wife of your youth.(C) You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.(D)

15 Has not the one God made you?(E) You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[a](F) So be on your guard,(G) and do not be unfaithful(H) to the wife of your youth.

16 “The man who hates and divorces his wife,(I)” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[b](J) says the Lord Almighty.

So be on your guard,(K) and do not be unfaithful.

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  1. Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.
  2. Malachi 2:16 Or “I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “because the man who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,”

19 For in those days there will be suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now and never will be.(A)

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19 because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world,(A) until now—and never to be equaled again.(B)

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20 The man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every animal of the field, but for the man[a] there was not found a helper as his partner. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.(A) 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
    for out of Man this one was taken.”(B)

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  1. 2.20 Or for Adam

20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam[a] no suitable helper(A) was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;(B) and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[b] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[c](C) he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;(D)
she shall be called(E) ‘woman,’
    for she was taken out of man.(F)

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  1. Genesis 2:20 Or the man
  2. Genesis 2:21 Or took part of the man’s side
  3. Genesis 2:22 Or part