The genealogy. 5 The age and death of Adam. 6 His succeession unto Noah and his children. 24 Enoch was taken away.

This is the [a]book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the [b]likeness of God made he him,

Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name [c]Adam in the day that they were created.

¶ Now Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a child in his own [d]likeness after his image, and called his name Seth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:1 Or, rehearsal of the stock.
  2. Genesis 5:1 Read Gen. 1:26.
  3. Genesis 5:2 By giving them both one name, he noteth the inseparable conjunction of man and wife.
  4. Genesis 5:3 As well concerning his creation, as his corruption.

From Adam to Noah

This is the written account(A) of Adam’s family line.(B)

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.(C) He created them(D) male and female(E) and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created.

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image;(F) and he named him Seth.(G)

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  1. Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam