Genesis 5:1

This is the story of Adam's family. When God made people, he made them to be like himself.

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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 made them to be a man and a woman, and he blessed them. That means that he was good to them, he made them strong and he called them humans This is a list of people that were in Adam's family line.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27So God made people to be like himself. He made them man and woman.

Genesis 6:9This is the story about Noah and his family. Noah was a good man. At that time, Noah was the only man on the earth that lived God's way and so God was really happy with him.

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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