--- title: "Genesis 5 - Study King James Bible" description: "Read Genesis 5 commentary. 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; 2 Male and female created he them; and" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/genesis/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/genesis/5)[ Commentary](/study/genesis/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/genesis/5) Audio 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; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 ¶ And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat *a son* in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. 6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:* 7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. 9 ¶ And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:* 10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: 11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. 12 ¶ And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:* 13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. 15 ¶ And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:* 16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: 17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. 18 ¶ And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: 19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. 21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:* 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he *was* not; for God took him. 25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: 26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:* 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. 28 ¶ And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This *same* shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.* 30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. [Genesis 4](/study/genesis/4) [Genesis 6](/study/genesis/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 **book:** The original word rendered "book," signifies a register, account, history, or any kind of writing. [Genesis 2:4](/kjv/genesis/2/4), [Genesis 6:9](/kjv/genesis/6/9), [Genesis 10:1](/kjv/genesis/10/1), [1 Chronicles 1:1](/kjv/1-chronicles/1/1), [Matthew 1:1](/kjv/matthew/1/1), [Luke 3:36-38](/kjv/luke/3/36-38) **in the likeness:** [Genesis 1:26](/kjv/genesis/1/26), [Genesis 1:27](/kjv/genesis/1/27), [Ecclesiastes 7:29](/kjv/ecclesiastes/7/29), [Ecclesiastes 12:1](/kjv/ecclesiastes/12/1), [1 Corinthians 11:7](/kjv/1-corinthians/11/7), [2 Corinthians 3:18](/kjv/2-corinthians/3/18), [Ephesians 4:24](/kjv/ephesians/4/24), [Colossians 3:10](/kjv/colossians/3/10), [Hebrews 1:3](/kjv/hebrews/1/3), [Hebrews 12:9](/kjv/hebrews/12/9) **Reciprocal:** [Genesis 9:6](/kjv/genesis/9/6) - in [Genesis 37:2](/kjv/genesis/37/2) - the generations [Numbers 3:1](/kjv/numbers/3/1) - generations [Luke 3:38](/kjv/luke/3/38) - of God [James 3:9](/kjv/james/3/9) - made ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/genesis/5#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/genesis/5#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/genesis/5","name":"Genesis 5 - Study King James Bible","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/genesis/5#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Genesis 5 commentary. 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. 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