Genesis 5:1-7

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.

Genesis 5:1-7 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.

Cross References

• 1. 5:1 See ch. 1:26, 27
• 2. 5:3 ch. 4:25
• 3. 5:4 For ver. 4-32, see 1 Chr. 1:1-4; Luke 3:36-38
• 4. 5:5 ch. 3:19
• 5. 5:6 ch. 4:26

Footnotes

• [a] 5:2 Hebrew 'adam'