Genesis 5:1-11

Adam's Descendants to Noah

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, ¹he made him in the likeness of God.

2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man^[a] when they were created.

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and ²named him Seth.

4 ³The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.

5 Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, ⁴and he died.

6 When Seth had lived 105 years, ⁵he fathered Enosh.

7 Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

8 Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.

9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.

10 Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

11 Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.

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Genesis 5:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 5

This chapter contains a list or catalogue of the posterity of Adam in the line of Seth, down to Noah; it begins with a short account of the creation of Adam, and of his life and death, Ge 5:1-5 next of five of the antediluvian patriarchs, their age and death, namely Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Ge 5:6-20 then a particular relation of Enoch, his character and translation, Ge 5:21-24 then follows an account of Methuselah, the oldest man, and Lamech's oracle concerning his son Noah, Ge 5:12-29 and the chapter is closed with the life and death of Lamech, and the birth of the three sons of Noah, Ge 5:30-32.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 5

1. See Genesis 1:26, 27
2. Genesis 4:25
3. For ver. 4-32, see 1 Chronicles 1:1-4; Luke 3:36-38
4. Genesis 3:19
5. Genesis 4:26

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew adam

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