Genesis 5:1-6:6

Contemporary English Version

Descendants of Adam

5 ^1-2^(A) God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. The following is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:

^3-4When Adam was 130, he had a son who was just like him, and he named him Seth. Adam had more children ⁵and died at the age of 930.

⁶When Seth was 105, he had a son named Enosh. ⁷Seth had more children ⁸and died at the age of 912.

⁹When Enosh was 90, he had a son named Kenan. ¹⁰Enosh had more children ¹¹and died at the age of 905.

¹²When Kenan was 70, he had a son named Mahalalel. ¹³Kenan had more children ¹⁴and died at the age of 910.

¹⁵When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son named Jared. ¹⁶Mahalalel had more children ¹⁷and died at the age of 895.

¹⁸When Jared was 162, he had a son named Enoch. ¹⁹Jared had more children ²⁰and died at the age of 962.

²¹When Enoch was 65, he had a son named Methuselah, ²²and during the next 300 years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God, ^23-24^(B) and God took him away at the age of 365.

²⁵When Methuselah was 187, he had a son named Lamech. ²⁶Methuselah had more children ²⁷and died at the age of 969.

²⁸When Lamech was one 182, he had a son. ²⁹Lamech said, “I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort,^[a] as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the Lord has put under a curse.” ³⁰Lamech had more children ³¹and died at the age of 777.

³²After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The Lord Will Send a Flood

6 ^1-2^(C) More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings^[b] came down and married the ones they wanted. ³Then the Lord said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever.^[c] No one will live for more than 120 years.”^[d]

⁴^(D)^(E) The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.

⁵^(F) The Lord saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil. ⁶He was sorry that he had made them,

Footnotes

5.29 Noah … comfort: In Hebrew “Noah” sounds like “comfort.”
6.1,2 supernatural beings: Or “angels.”
6.3 I won't … forever: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
6.3 No one … years: Or “In fact, they will all be destroyed in about 100 years” (that is, at the time of the flood).