Genesis 5:1

This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

2male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 6:9And these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noah was well-pleasing to God.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh,

Ecclesiastes 12:1And remember thy Creator 1 In the days of thy youth, 1 Before the days of evil come, 1 And the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, 1 I have no pleasure in them. 1

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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