Add parallel Print Page Options

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”[a]

When[b] Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth. The length of time Adam lived[c] after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had[d] other[e] sons and daughters.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:2 tn The Hebrew word used here is אָדָם (ʾadam).
  2. Genesis 5:3 tn Heb “and Adam lived 130 years.” In the translation the verb is subordinated to the following verb, “and he fathered,” and rendered as a temporal clause.
  3. Genesis 5:4 tn Heb “The days of Adam.”
  4. Genesis 5:4 tn Heb “he fathered.”
  5. Genesis 5:4 tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

He created them(A) male and female(B) 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;(C) and he named him Seth.(D) After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam

He created them (A)male and female, and (B)blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son (C)in his own likeness, after his image, and (D)named him Seth. After he begot Seth, (E)the days of Adam were eight hundred years; (F)and he had sons and daughters.

Read full chapter