Genesis 5:1

The Descendants of Adam

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness. ¹

Genesis 5:1 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam
An account of persons born of him, or who descended from him by generation in the line of Seth, down to Noah, consisting of ten generations; for a genealogy of all his descendants is not here given, not of those in the line of Cain, nor of the collateral branches in the line of Seth, only of those that descended one from another in a direct line to Noah: in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he
him;
this is repeated from ( Genesis 1:27 ) to put in mind that man is a creature of God; that God made him, and not he himself; that the first man was not begotten or produced in like manner as his sons are, but was immediately created; that his creation was in time, when there were days, and it was not on the first of these, but on the sixth; and that he was made in the likeness of God, which chiefly lay in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, and in dominion over the creatures.

Genesis 5:1 In-Context

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

2 Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”

3 When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

4 And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

5 So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

Cross References

• 1. (1 Chronicles 1:1–3)