1 This is the record of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created mankind, he made them in his own likeness. 2 Male and female he created them. He blessed them and named them mankind when they were created. 3◆ When Adam had lived 130 years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and he called his name Seth. 4◆ After Adam became the father of Seth, he lived eight hundred years. He became the father of more sons and daughters. 5◆ Adam lived 930 years, and then he died. 6◆ When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh. 7◆ After he became the father of Enosh, he lived 807 years and became the father of more sons and daughters. 8◆ Seth lived 912 years, and then he died. 9◆ When Enosh had lived ninety years, he became the father of Kenan. 10◆ After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters. 11◆ Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died. 12◆ When Kenan had lived seventy years, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13◆ After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters. 14◆ Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died. 15◆ When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared. 16◆ After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters. 17◆ Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died. 18◆ When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. 19◆ After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years. He became the father of more sons and daughters. 20◆ Jared lived 962 years, and then he died. 21◆ When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22◆ Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah. He became the father of more sons and daughters. 23◆ Enoch lived 365 years. 24◆ Enoch walked with God, and then he was gone, for God took him. 25◆ When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. 26◆ After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters. 27◆ Methuselah lived 969 years. Then he died. 28◆ When Lamech had lived 182 years, he became the father of a son. 29◆ He called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the painful labor of our hands, which we must do because of the ground that Yahweh has cursed.” 30◆ Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah. He became the father of more sons and daughters. 31◆ Lamech lived 777 years. Then he died. 32◆ After Noah had lived five hundred years, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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People & places in this chapter
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People
Adam
Formed from the dust by God's own hand, the father of all who live.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 1–5
Enoch
He walked with God, and was not, for God took him — he did not die.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:21–24; Hebrews 11:5
Enosh
In his days people first began to call on the name of the LORD.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 4:26; 5:6–11
Jared
Father of Enoch, who lived nine hundred sixty-two years.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:15–20
Kenan
A quiet link in the long line from Seth toward Noah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:9–14
Lamech
He named his son Noah, hoping for rest from the toil of cursed ground.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:25–31
Mahalalel
His name means 'praise of God,' one link in the primeval line.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:12–17
Methuselah
The oldest man recorded in Scripture, living nine hundred sixty-nine years.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:21–27
Noah
A righteous man who found favor with God and rode out the flood in an ark.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:28–9:29
Seth
The son granted in Abel's place, through whom the godly line continued.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 4:25–5:8
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10; Genesis 1:26–27; Hebrews 1:3; 1 Corinthians 11:7
- 2 Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6; Genesis 2:23; Malachi 2:15; Genesis 1:27
- 3 Genesis 4:25; 1 Corinthians 15:39; John 3:6; Job 25:4; Ephesians 2:3
- 4 1 Chronicles 1:1–3; Luke 3:36–38; Genesis 5:10; Genesis 5:7; Genesis 5:19
- 5 Genesis 5:11; Genesis 5:8; Genesis 3:19; 2 Samuel 14:14; 1 Corinthians 15:21–22
- 6 Genesis 4:26
- 9 Luke 3:37; 1 Chronicles 1:2
- 12 Luke 3:37
- 15 1 Chronicles 1:2
- 18 Jude 14–15; 1 Chronicles 1:3; Genesis 4:17; Luke 3:37
- 21 Luke 3:37
- 22 1 Thessalonians 2:12; Genesis 17:1; Malachi 2:6; Genesis 6:9; Luke 1:6
- 24 Hebrews 11:5–6; 1 John 1:7; Genesis 5:22; Luke 23:43; 2 Kings 2:11
- 25 Genesis 4:18
- 29 Matthew 24:37; 2 Peter 2:5; Hebrews 11:7; Ezekiel 14:20; Ezekiel 14:14
- 32 Genesis 6:10; Genesis 10:21; Genesis 7:13; 1 Chronicles 1:4–28; Genesis 10:32
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Why does my Bible say something different?
- Genesis 5 and 11: why the patriarchs’ ages differ
In the Greek Septuagint most patriarchs in Genesis 5 and 11 become fathers about 100 years later than in the Hebrew text, and Genesis 11 adds a second Cainan, whom St Luke also names (Luke 3:36). The result is a world history over a thousand years longer. The Byzantine calendar was built on the Greek numbers. No doctrine depends on either set.
What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Then because it is written, "And Seth lived 205 years," or, according to the Hebrew reading, "105 years, and begat Enos," who but a rash man could affirm that this was his first-born?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For in ordinary language an image is a motionless representation of that which has motion; but in this case it is the living reproduction of the Living One, and is more exactly like than was Seth to Adam, or any son to his father.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Will any man do so when it is written of him, "And he begat sons and daughters, and all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died?" And similarly regarding those whose years are afterwards mentioned, it is not disguised that they begat sons and daughters.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Further, Seth signifies "resurrection," and Enos his son signifies "man," not as Adam, which also signifies man, but is used in Hebrew indifferently for man and woman, as it is written, "Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam," leaving no room to doubt that though the woman was distinctively called Eve, yet the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)