John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 6. But from the beginning of the creation , etc..] Of the world, or of man: lw [ l wtyyrb tl j tm , from the beginning of the creation of the world, is a way of speaking often used by the Jews f187 : the phrase of the creation is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions; and so it was in Beza's most ancient copy, and it is only read, from the beginning, as in Matthew 19:4,8. God made them male and female ; the first that were created, Adam and Eve, the first parents of mankind, the first couple that came together were one male and one female; so that there could be no polygamy or divorce:
Adam could not have more wives
than one: nor could he put away 
