Genesis 5:1
This is the list of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created human beings, he made them in his own image.
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2He created them male and female created, and blessed them, and called their name Adam.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27So God created humans in his image, he created them in the image of God. He created them male and female.
Genesis 6:9This is the story of Noah. Among the people of his time, Noah was righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with God.
Luke 3:36Kenan, Arpachshad, Shem, Noah, Lamech,
2 Corinthians 3:18And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.
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 →