Genesis 5:1

This is the Sefer Toldot Adam. In the yom that barah Elohim Adam, in the demut Elohim He made him;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2Zachar and nekevah He created them; and blessed them, and called the shem of them “Adam,” in the yom when they were created.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27So G-d created humankind in His own tzelem, 1 in the tzelem Elohim (image of G-d) created He him; 1 zachar (male) and nekevah (female) created He them.

Genesis 6:9These are the toldot of Noach; Noach was an ish tzaddik and tamim among those of his time, and Noachʼs halachah was with HaElohim.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Shet, Enosh,

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember now thy Bo're (Creator) in the yamim of thy bechurot, while the yamei hara'ah come not, nor the shanim draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no chefetz (pleasure) in them;

Luke 3:36Ben Keinan, ben Arpachshad, ben Shem, ben Noach, ben Lemekh,

2 Corinthians 3:18Now all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the kavod of Adoneinu + 3:18 Ex 16:7; 24:17 as if reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same demut from kavod to kavod, even as from HaAdon, HaRuach.

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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