Genesis 5:3

And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth [a son] in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.

Young's Literal Translation

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

2a male and a female He hath prepared them, and He blesseth them, and calleth their name Man, in the day of their being prepared.

4And the days of Adam after his begetting Seth are eight hundred years, and he begetteth sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:25And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth, 'for God hath appointed for me another seed instead of Abel:' for Cain had slain him.

Job 15:14What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

Psalms 14:2Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one — seeking God.

Luke 1:35And the messenger answering said to her, 'The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

Romans 5:12because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

Ephesians 2:3among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath — as also the others,

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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