Tobit 8:6

Deuterocanon

4 When the parents had gone out and shut the door of the room, Tobias got out of bed and said to Sarah, "Sister, get up, and let us pray and implore our Lord that he grant us mercy and safety." 5 So she got up, and they began to pray and implore that they might be kept safe. Tobias began by saying, "Blessed are you, O God of our ancestors, and blessed is your name in all generations forever. Let the heavens and the whole creation bless you forever. 6 You made Adam, and for him you made his wife Eve as a helper and support. From the two of them the human race has sprung. You said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; let us make a helper for him like himself.' 7 I now am taking this kinswoman of mine, not because of lust, but with sincerity. Grant that she and I may find mercy and that we may grow old together." 8 And they both said, "Amen, Amen."

Acts 17:26

New Testament

24 The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone. 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, 27 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

 Notes and References

"... This book has not been focusing on scientific issues because I am not a scientist, and those issues are complex.1 Instead, I have focused on what the biblical claims are regarding biological human origins, and in that regard we have found no claims. At the same time, even very early interpreters undoubtedly considered Adam and Eve to be the progenitors of the entire human race. ((e.g., second-century B.C. Tobit 8:6, “those two were parents of all humans.”) Evidence has been presented that Genesis 2 talks about the nature of all people, not the unique material origins of Adam and Eve. Consequently, we do not find human origins stories in Genesis 2 that make scientific claims. That does not mean that modern scientific theories are therefore correct by default—it just means that we can consider scientific claims on their own merit rather than dismissing them because they contradict biblical claims ..."

Walton, John H. The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate (pp. 151-156) IVP Academic, 2015

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