Bible Verses About Humanity's Origins

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

The same was in the beginning with God.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.