Male and female — and their name is Adam
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ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν αὐτούς, καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτούς. καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν Ἀδάμ, ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησεν αὐτούς.
Almost verbatim from 1:27-28, but with a new, striking move: the naming clause. “Adam” up to now has served as both the personal name of the individual man and (as in Hebrew אָדָם) a common noun for humankind at large; this verse gives that collective name formally to the male-and-female pair together, one final time, before v.3 narrows the word to the single patriarch who fathers Seth and starts the count of years. The double naming — of the species, then of the man — marks the seam between Genesis’s creation account and its first genealogy.
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