1 This [is] an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him; 2 a male and a female He hath prepared them, and He blesseth them, and calleth their name Man, in the day of their being prepared. 3◆ And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth [a son] in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth. 4◆ And the days of Adam after his begetting Seth are eight hundred years, and he begetteth sons and daughters. 5◆ And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dieth. 6◆ And Seth liveth an hundred and five years, and begetteth Enos. 7◆ And Seth liveth after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 8◆ And all the days of Seth are nine hundred and twelve years, and he dieth. 9◆ And Enos liveth ninety years, and begetteth Cainan. 10◆ And Enos liveth after his begetting Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 11◆ And all the days of Enos are nine hundred and five years, and he dieth. 12◆ And Cainan liveth seventy years, and begetteth Mahalaleel. 13◆ And Cainan liveth after his begetting Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 14◆ And all the days of Cainan are nine hundred and ten years, and he dieth. 15◆ And Mahalaleel liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Jared. 16◆ And Mahalaleel liveth after his begetting Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 17◆ And all the days of Mahalaleel are eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he dieth. 18◆ And Jared liveth an hundred and sixty and two years, and begetteth Enoch. 19◆ And Jared liveth after his begetting Enoch eight hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 20◆ And all the days of Jared are nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he dieth. 21◆ And Enoch liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Methuselah. 22◆ And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 23◆ And all the days of Enoch are three hundred and sixty and five years. 24◆ And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him. 25◆ And Methuselah liveth an hundred and eighty and seven years, and begetteth Lamech. 26◆ And Methuselah liveth after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 27◆ And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth. 28◆ And Lamech liveth an hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth a son, 29◆ and calleth his name Noah, saying, 'This [one] doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.' 30◆ And Lamech liveth after his begetting Noah five hundred and ninety and five years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 31◆ And all the days of Lamech are seven hundred and seventy and seven years, and he dieth. 32◆ And Noah is a son of five hundred years, and Noah begetteth Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis · Young's Literal Translation
Genesis 5 Young's Literal Translation
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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
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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“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)