Genesis 5:1

This is the record of Adam's descendants. When God created human beings, he made them to be like him.

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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 blessed them. On the day he created them he called them “human.”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27So God created human beings in his own image. He created them in the image of God. He created them male and female.

Genesis 6:9This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was a man of integrity, living a moral life among the people of his time. He had a close relationship with God.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator while you are young, before days of trouble come and you grow old, saying, “I'm not enjoying life anymore.”

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

2 Corinthians 3:18So all of us, with our faces unveiled, see and reflect the glory of the Lord as in a mirror. We are being transformed into the same mirror image, whose glory grows brighter and brighter. This is what the Lord the Spirit does.

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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