1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam. 3◆ Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 4◆ The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters. 5◆ All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, then he died. 6◆ Seth lived one hundred and five years, then became the father of Enosh. 7◆ Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters. 8◆ All of the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, then he died. 9◆ Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan. 10◆ Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters. 11◆ All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, then he died. 12◆ Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel. 13◆ Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters 14◆ and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, then he died. 15◆ Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared. 16◆ Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters. 17◆ All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, then he died. 18◆ Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch. 19◆ Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters. 20◆ All of the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, then he died. 21◆ Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah. 22◆ After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters. 23◆ All the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24◆ Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him. 25◆ Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech. 26◆ Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters. 27◆ All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, then he died. 28◆ Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, then became the father of a son. 29◆ He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.” 30◆ Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters. 31◆ All the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, then he died. 32◆ Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah 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.
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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)