Genesis 5:1
This is the story about Adam’s family. You see, when God made people, he made them to be like himself.
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2And he made them men and women, and he called them human beings, and he was good to them.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27So God made people to be like himself. He made them man and woman.
Genesis 6:9This is the story about Noah and his family. Noah was a good man. He didn’t do anything wrong. He was God’s friend, and he spent a lot of time with God.
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 →