Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
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2He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 6:9This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless amongst the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh,
Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
Luke 3:36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from 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 →