Genesis 5
1599 Geneva Bible
5 The genealogy. 5 The age and death of Adam. 6 His succeession unto Noah and his children. 24 Enoch was taken away.
1 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,
2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name [c]Adam in the day that they were created.
3 ¶ 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.
4 (A)And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.
5 So all the days that Adam lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
6 And [e]Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enosh.
7 And Seth lived after he begat Enosh, eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
8 So all the days of Seth were [f]nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
9 ¶ Also Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Cainan.
10 And Enosh lived after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
11 So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
12 ¶ Likewise Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel.
13 And Cainan lived, after he begat Mahalalel, eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 So all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
15 ¶ Mahalalel also lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared.
16 Also Mahalalel lived, after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
17 So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
18 ¶ And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch.
19 Then Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 So all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21 ¶ (B)Also Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah.
22 And Enoch [g]walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years.
24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more seen: for [h]God took him away.
25 Methuselah also lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
26 And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters.
27 So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years, and he died.
28 ¶ Then Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son,
29 And called his name, Noah, saying, This same shall [i]comfort us concerning our work and sorrow of our hands, as touching the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.
30 And Lamech lived, after he begat Noah, five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters.
31 So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old. And Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Footnotes
- Genesis 5:1 Or, rehearsal of the stock.
- Genesis 5:1 Read Gen. 1:26.
- Genesis 5:2 By giving them both one name, he noteth the inseparable conjunction of man and wife.
- Genesis 5:3 As well concerning his creation, as his corruption.
- Genesis 5:6 He proveth Adam’s generation by them which came of Seth, to show which is the true Church, and also what care God had over the same from the beginning, in that he continued ever his graces toward it by a continual succession.
- Genesis 5:8 The chief cause of long life in the first age, was the multiplication of mankind, that according to God’s commandment at the beginning the world might be increased with people, which might universally praise him.
- Genesis 5:22 That is, he led an upright and godly life.
- Genesis 5:24 To show that there was a better life prepared, and to be a testimony of the immortality of souls and bodies. As to inquire where he became, is mere curiosity.
- Genesis 5:29 Lamech had respect to the promise, Gen. 3:15, and desired to see the deliverer which should be sent, and yet saw but a figure thereof, he also spake this by the spirit of prophecy because Noah delivered the Church and preserved it by his obedience.
Genesis 5
Good News Translation
The Descendants of Adam(A)
5 (B)This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself. 2 (C)He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them “Human Beings.”) 3 When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth. 4 After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children 5 and died at the age of 930.
6 When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enosh, 7 and then lived another 807 years. He had other children 8 and died at the age of 912.
9 When Enosh was 90, he had a son, Kenan, 10 and then lived another 815 years. He had other children 11 and died at the age of 905.
12 When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel, 13 and then lived another 840 years. He had other children 14 and died at the age of 910.
15 When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared, 16 and then lived another 830 years. He had other children 17 and died at the age of 895.
18 When Jared was 162, he had a son, Enoch, 19 and then lived another 800 years. He had other children 20 and died at the age of 962.
21 When Enoch was 65, he had a son, Methuselah. 22 After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children. 23 He lived to be 365 years old. 24 (D)He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.
25 When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech, 26 and then lived another 782 years. He had other children 27 and died at the age of 969.
28 When Lamech was 182, he had a son 29 and said, “From the very ground on which the Lord put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah.[a] 30 Lamech lived another 595 years. He had other children 31 and died at the age of 777.
32 After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Footnotes
- Genesis 5:29 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “relief.”
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