Genesis 5:1

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

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In The King James Version

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

2He created them, male and female; and he blessed them. And he called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, and yet he was predominate among his generations, for he walked with God.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enos,

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the time of affliction arrives and the years draw near, about which you will say, “These do not please me.”

Luke 3:36who was of Cainan, who was of Arphaxad, who was of Shem, who was of Noah, who was of Lamech,

2 Corinthians 3:18Yet truly, all of us, as we gaze upon the unveiled glory of the face of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image, from one glory to another. And this is done by the Spirit of the 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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