1 Hic est liber generationis Adam. In die qua creavit Deus hominem, ad similitudinem Dei fecit illum. 2 Masculum et feminam creavit eos, et benedixit illis: et vocavit nomen eorum Adam, in die quo creati sunt. 3◆ Vixit autem Adam centum triginta annis: et genuit ad imaginem et similitudinem suam, vocavitque nomen ejus Seth. 4◆ Et facti sunt dies Adam, postquam genuit Seth, octingenti anni: genuitque filios et filias. 5◆ Et factum est omne tempus quod vixit Adam, anni nongenti triginta, et mortuus est. 6◆ Vixit quoque Seth centum quinque annis, et genuit Enos. 7◆ Vixitque Seth, postquam genuit Enos, octingentis septem annis, genuitque filios et filias. 8◆ Et facti sunt omnes dies Seth nongentorum duodecim annorum, et mortuus est. 9◆ Vixit vero Enos nonaginta annis, et genuit Cainan. 10◆ Post cujus ortum vixit octingentis quindecim annis, et genuit filios et filias. 11◆ Factique sunt omnes dies Enos nongenti quinque anni, et mortuus est. 12◆ Vixit quoque Cainan septuaginta annis, et genuit Malaleel. 13◆ Et vixit Cainan, postquam genuit Malaleel, octingentis quadraginta annis, genuitque filios et filias. 14◆ Et facti sunt omnes dies Cainan nongenti decem anni, et mortuus est. 15◆ Vixit autem Malaleel sexaginta quinque annis, et genuit Jared. 16◆ Et vixit Malaleel, postquam genuit Jared, octingentis triginta annis, et genuit filios et filias. 17◆ Et facti sunt omnes dies Malaleel octingenti nonaginta quinque anni, et mortuus est. 18◆ Vixitque Jared centum sexaginta duobus annis, et genuit Henoch. 19◆ Et vixit Jared, postquam genuit Henoch, octingentis annis, et genuit filios et filias. 20◆ Et facti sunt omnes dies Jared nongenti sexaginta duo anni, et mortuus est. 21◆ Porro Henoch vixit sexaginta quinque annis, et genuit Mathusalam. 22◆ Et ambulavit Henoch cum Deo: et vixit, postquam genuit Mathusalam, trecentis annis, et genuit filios et filias. 23◆ Et facti sunt omnes dies Henoch trecenti sexaginta quinque anni. 24◆ Ambulavitque cum Deo, et non apparuit: quia tulit eum Deus. 25◆ Vixit quoque Mathusala centum octoginta septem annis, et genuit Lamech. 26◆ Et vixit Mathusala, postquam genuit Lamech, septingentis octoginta duobus annis, et genuit filios et filias. 27◆ Et facti sunt omnes dies Mathusala nongenti sexaginta novem anni, et mortuus est. 28◆ Vixit autem Lamech centum octoginta duobus annis, et genuit filium: 29◆ vocavitque nomen ejus Noë, dicens: Iste consolabitur nos ab operibus et laboribus manuum nostrarum in terra, cui maledixit Dominus. 30◆ Vixitque Lamech, postquam genuit Noë, quingentis nonaginta quinque annis, et genuit filios et filias. 31◆ Et facti sunt omnes dies Lamech septingenti septuaginta septem anni, et mortuus est. Noë vero cum quingentorum esset annorum, genuit Sem, Cham et Japheth.
Genesis 5 Clementine Vulgate
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People & places in this chapter
From this site's family tree and Bible maps, only where those guides cite this chapter.
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 (15)
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
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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.
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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)