Genesis 5:1

This is the booke of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likenes of God made he him,

Geneva Bible 1599

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 created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day that they were created.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with God.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Sheth, Enosh,

Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:

Luke 3:36The sonne of Cainan, the sonne of Arphaxad, the sonne of Sem, the sonne of Noe, the sonne of Lamech,

2 Corinthians 3:18But we al behold as in a mirrour the glory of the Lord with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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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