Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God he made him,

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This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

In Context

2male and female he created them, and blessed them, and called their name Man, in the day when they were created.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.

Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them,

Luke 3:36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing by reflection the glory of Lord, are transformed into the same likeness from glory to glory, just as from the Spirit of Lord.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:1

This chapter is the only authentic history extant of the first age of the world from the creation to the flood, containing (according to the verity of the Hebrew text) 1656 years, as may easily be computed by the ages of the patriarchs, before they begat that son through whom the line went down to Noah. This is one of those which the apostle calls "endless genealogies" ( 1 Tim. i. 4 ), for Christ, who was the end of the Old-Testament law, was also the end of the Old-Testament genealogies; towards him they looked,… Read the whole commentary →

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