Genesis 5:1

This, is the record of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, In the likeness of God, made he him:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 they were created.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27And God created the man in his own image, In the image of God, created he him,—Male and female, created he, them.

Genesis 6:9These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations,—with God, did Noah walk.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh:

Ecclesiastes 12:1Yet remember thy Creator, in the days of thy vigour,—or ever come in, the days of discomfort, and the years arrive, in which thou shalt say—I have, in them, no pleasure;

Luke 3:36of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Shem,—of Noah, of Lamech:

2 Corinthians 3:18And, we all, with unveiled face, receiving and reflecting, the glory of [the] Lord, into the same image, are being transformed, from glory into glory,—even as from a Spirit that is 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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