10:6

However: The Greek conjunction that the Berean Standard Bible translates as However indicates a contrast. The contrast is between the law that Moses wrote because of people’s stubbornness (10:5) and God’s original intention for people (10:6–9). Indicate this contrast in a natural way in your language.

from the beginning of creation:

Here are some other ways to translate this:

when God made the world (New Century Version)
-or-
at the beginning when God created everything

‘God made them male and female’: The Berean Standard Bible puts single quote marks around God made them male and female. This is because these words are a direct quote from the Greek translation of Genesis 1:27. If you usually put quote marks around a quote from the Old Testament, you may want to put quote marks around these words, as the Berean Standard Bible does. Another way to show that this is a quote from the Old Testament is to say:

It is written that God made them male and female.

Some versions do not indicate specifically that these are quotes, but they give the verse references in a footnote. You may want to give the Old Testament references in a footnote, whether or not you mark the quotes.

them: The pronoun them refers to the first human beings. Some ways to translate this are:

• Translate the pronoun them literally. If you do this, you may want to make explicit what them refers to. For example:

when God created the world, he created people and made them male and female

• Omit the pronoun them. For example, the Contemporary English Version says:

God made a man and a woman

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