Genesis 5:5

Verse 5 of 32. The 5th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.

1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

5And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

6And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:

7And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

8And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

9And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

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All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
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Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:5

The first words of the chapter are the title or argument of the whole chapter: it is the book of the generations of Adam; it is the list or catalogue of the posterity of Adam, not of all, but only of the holy seed who were the substance thereof (Isa. vi. 13), and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came (Rom. ix. 5), the names, ages, and deaths, of those that were the successors of the first Adam in…

Read Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:1–5: Genealogies. (b. c. 3852.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.