Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generation (s) of Adam, in the day wherein God made man of nought. God made man to the image and likeness of God; (This is the book of the descendants of Adam. On the day when God made man out of nothing, God made man in the image and likeness of God;)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

2God formed them male and female, and blessed them, and called the name of them Adam, in the day in which they were formed. (God formed them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Man, on the day when they were formed.)

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27And God made of nought a man to his image and likeness; God made of nought a man, to the image of God; God made of nought them, male and female. (And so God made out of nothing a man in his image and likeness; God made out of nothing a man in the image of God; yea, God made them out of nothing, male and female.)

Genesis 6:9These be the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man and perfect in his generations; Noe went with God, (This is the story of Noah. Noah was a just, or a righteous, man, and the only good man of his generation; and Noah walked with God,)

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam begat Seth; and Seth, Enos, [Adam, Seth, Enos,]

Ecclesiastes 12:1Have thou mind on thy Creator + 12:1 The Hebrew for ‘thy Creator’ sounds much like the Hebrew for ‘thy grave’. ( Good News Bible) in the days of thy youth, before that the time of thy torment come, and the years of thy death nigh, of which thou shalt say, Those please not me. (Think thou upon thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before that the time of thy torment come, and the years of thy death approach, of which thou shalt say, These days do not please me at all.)

Luke 3:36that was of Cainan, that was of Arphaxad, that was of Sem, that was of Noe, that was of Lamech,

2 Corinthians 3:18And all we that with open face see the glory of the Lord, be transformed into the same image, from clearness into clearness (or from glory unto glory), as of 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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