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Adam’s Descendants to Noah and His Sons

This is the book of the generations[a] of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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Footnotes

  1. 5.1 generations: It should be noted that these genealogies are selective and schematic, and the numbers, as often in the Old Testament, are symbolic.

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