Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

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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 made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh;

Ecclesiastes 12:1Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will 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 giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

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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