Genesis 5:1-6

1 This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself.

2 He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”

3 When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth.

4 After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

5 Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

6 When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.

Genesis 5:1-6 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or man; Hebrew reads adam; similarly in 5:2 .
• [b]. Or the ancestor of; also in 5:9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 25 .