Genesis 5:3

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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In The King James Version

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

In Context

2He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

4The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:25Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."

Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean?What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Psalms 14:2The Lord looked down from heaven on the children of men,to see if there were any who did understand,who did seek after God.

Luke 1:35The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born will be called the Son of God.

Romans 5:12Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Ephesians 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:2-6

Genealogies. ( b. c. 3852.) 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 And all the days that… Read the whole commentary →

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