Genesis 5:1

Adam’s Descendants to Noah

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

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 record of the generations of Adam. When God created Adam, he made him in the likeness of God.

2 Male and female he created them. And he blessed them. And he called their name "Humankind" when they were created.

3 And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth.

4 And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

5 And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "family records"
• [b]. Literally "On the day"
• [c]. Or "humankind"