Genesis 5:1

From Adam to Noah

1 This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

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Genesis 5:1 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

NLT

1 This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself.

MSG

1 This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God.

CSB

1 These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;

Genesis 5:1 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam
An account of persons born of him, or who descended from him by generation in the line of Seth, down to Noah, consisting of ten generations; for a genealogy of all his descendants is not here given, not of those in the line of Cain, nor of the collateral branches in the line of Seth, only of those that descended one from another in a direct line to Noah: in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he
him;
this is repeated from ( Genesis 1:27 ) to put in mind that man is a creature of God; that God made him, and not he himself; that the first man was not begotten or produced in like manner as his sons are, but was immediately created; that his creation was in time, when there were days, and it was not on the first of these, but on the sixth; and that he was made in the likeness of God, which chiefly lay in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, and in dominion over the creatures.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 5:1 In-Context

1 This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.

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

4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

Cross References 3

1. S Genesis 2:4
2. 1 Chronicles 1:1
3. S Genesis 1:27; Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10