Genesis 5 · Verse 1

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Genesis 5:1, King James Version

Genesis 5:1 in other translations

BSBThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
WEBThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
ASVThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
YLTThis 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;
DARBYThis is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
BBEThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
WebsterThis is the book of the generations of Adam: In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him:

What does Genesis 5:1 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Ge 5:1-32. Genealogy of the Patriarchs.

1. book of the generations--(See Ge 11:4). Adam--used here either as the name of the first man, or of the human race generally.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

A recapitulation of the account of the creation of man, Gen 5:1, Gen 5:2; and of the birth of Seth, Gen 5:3. Genealogy of the ten antediluvian patriarchs, vv. 3-31. Enoch's extraordinary piety, Gen 5:22; his translation to heaven without seeing death, Gen 5:24. The birth of Noah, and the reason of his name, Gen 5:29; his age at the birth of Japheth, Gen 5:32. Verse 1 The book of the generations - ספר sepher, in Hebrew, which we generally translate book, signifies a register, an account, any kind of writing, even a letter, such as the bill of divorce. Here It means the account or register of the generations of Adam or his descendants to the five hundredth year of the life of Noah. In the likeness of God made he him - This account is again introduced to keep man in remembrance of the heights of glory whence he bad fallen; and to prove to him that the miseries and death consequent on his present state were produced by his transgression, and did not flow from his original state. For, as he was created in the image of God, he was created free from natural and moral evil. As the deaths of the patriarchs are now to be mentioned, it was necessary to introduce them by this observation, in order to justify the ways of God to man.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 5:1-5
Adam was made in the image of God; but when fallen he begat a son in his own image, sinful and defiled, frail, wretched, and mortal, like himself. Not only a man like himself, consisting of body and soul, but a sinner like himself. This was the reverse of that Divine likeness in which Adam was made; having lost it, he could not convey it to his seed. Adam lived, in all, 930 years; and then died, according to the sentence passed upon him, "To dust thou shalt return." Though he did not die in the day he ate forbidden fruit, yet in that very day he became mortal. Then he began to die; his whole life after was but a reprieve, a forfeited, condemned life; it was a wasting, dying life. Man's life is but dying by degrees.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Genesis 5:1 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זֶ֣הzehthisH2088
סֵ֔פֶרSe.fer[is] [the] record ofH5612
תּוֹלְדֹ֖תtol.Dot[the] descendants ofH8435
אָדָ֑ם'a.DamAdamH121
בְּי֗וֹםbe.Yomon [the] dayH3117
בְּרֹ֤אbe.Ro'createdH1254
אֱלֹהִים֙'E.lo.HimGodH430
אָדָ֔ם'a.DamhumankindH120
בִּדְמ֥וּתbid.Mutin [the] likeness ofH1823
אֱלֹהִ֖ים'E.lo.HimGodH430
עָשָׂ֥ה'a.Sahhe madeH6213
אֹתֽוֹ\׃'o.To<obj.> himH853

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Cross references for Genesis 5:1

  • Ephesians 4:24

    And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

  • Colossians 3:10

    And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

  • Genesis 1:26-27

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  • Hebrews 1:3

    Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

  • 1 Corinthians 11:7

    For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

  • Ecclesiastes 12:1

    Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

  • Ecclesiastes 7:29

    Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

  • Hebrews 12:9

    Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

  • Matthew 1:1

    The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

  • 2 Corinthians 3:18

    But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:1

    Adam, Sheth, Enosh,

  • Luke 3:36-38

    Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 Recapitulation of the creation of man.
3 The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah.
22 The godliness and translation of Enoch.
25 The birth of Noah, etc.

book.The original word rendered "book," signifies a register, account, history, or any kind of writing.
2:4; 6:9; 10:1; 1Ch 1:1; Mt 1:1; Lu 3:36-38
in the likeness.
1:26,27; Ec 7:29; 12:1; 1Co 11:7; 2Co 3:18; Eph 4:24; Col 3:10
Heb 1:3; 12:9

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Context

  • Genesis 5:1

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

  • Genesis 5:2

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

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Genesis 5:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		ESTE es el libro de las generaciones de Adam. El día en que crió Dios al hombre, á la semejanza de Dios lo hizo;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*C’est ici le livre des générations d’Adam. Au jour où Dieu créa Adam, il le fit à la ressemblance de Dieu.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Dies ist das Buch von Adams Geschlechtern. An dem Tage, da Gott Adam schuf, machte er ihn im Gleichnis Gottes.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Hic est liber generationis Adam. In die qua creavit Deus hominem, ad similitudinem Dei fecit illum.