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Adam’s Descendants to Noah and His Sons

This is the book of the generations[a] of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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Footnotes

  1. 5.1 generations: It should be noted that these genealogies are selective and schematic, and the numbers, as often in the Old Testament, are symbolic.

From Adam to Noah

This is the written account(A) of Adam’s family line.(B)

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.(C) He created them(D) male and female(E) and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created.

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image;(F) and he named him Seth.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam