Genesis 5:1-2

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Adam’s descendants

5 This is the record of Adam’s descendants. On the day God created humanity, he made them to resemble God ²and created them male and female. He blessed them and called them humanity^[a] on the day they were created.

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Genesis 5:2 Heb adam

Genesis 5:25-32

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²⁵When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech. ²⁶After Lamech’s birth, Methuselah lived 782 years; and he had other sons and daughters. ²⁷In all, Methuselah lived 969 years, and he died.

²⁸When Lamech was 182 years old, he became the father of a son ²⁹and named him Noah, saying, “This one will give us relief^[a] from our hard work, from the pain in our hands, because of the fertile land that the Lord cursed.” ³⁰After Noah’s birth, Lamech lived 595 years; and he had other sons and daughters. ³¹In all, Lamech lived 777 years, and he died.

³²When Noah was 500 years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Genesis 5:29 Heb resembles the sound of Noah’s name.

Genesis 6:1-8

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Ancient heroes

6 When the number of people started to increase throughout the fertile land, daughters were born to them. ²The divine beings saw how beautiful these human women were, so they married the ones they chose. ³The Lord said, “My breath^[a] will not remain in humans forever, because they are flesh. They will live one hundred twenty years.” ⁴In those days, giants^[b] lived on the earth and also afterward, when divine beings and human daughters had sexual relations and gave birth to children. These were the ancient heroes, famous men.

Great flood

⁵The Lord saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on the earth and that every idea their minds thought up was always completely evil. ⁶The Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and he was heartbroken. ⁷So the Lord said, “I will wipe off of the land the human race that I’ve created: from human beings to livestock to the crawling things to the birds in the skies, because I regret I ever made them.” ⁸But as for Noah, the Lord approved of him.