Genesis 5:1

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 blessed them: and 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 Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enos,

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not:

Luke 3:36Who was of Cainan, who was of Arphaxad, who was of Sem, who was of Noe, who was of Lamech,

2 Corinthians 3:18But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as 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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