Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that the Lord God created man, in the resemblance of Elohim He made him;

Targum Onkelos

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 created them; and He blessed them, and called their name Man, in the day that they were created.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27And the Lord created the Adam in His image, in the image of the Lord He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 6:9These are the memorials of Noach. Noach was a man righteous and perfect in his generation; in the fear of the Lord walked Noach.

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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