Genesis 5 - Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Descendants of Adam

5 1-2 (A) God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. The following is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:

3-4 When Adam was 130, he had a son who was just like him, and he named him Seth. Adam had more children 5 and died at the age of 930.

6 When Seth was 105, he had a son named Enosh. 7 Seth had more children 8 and died at the age of 912.

9 When Enosh was 90, he had a son named Kenan. 10 Enosh had more children 11 and died at the age of 905.

12 When Kenan was 70, he had a son named Mahalalel. 13 Kenan had more children 14 and died at the age of 910.

15 When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son named Jared. 16 Mahalalel had more children 17 and died at the age of 895.

18 When Jared was 162, he had a son named Enoch. 19 Jared had more children 20 and died at the age of 962.

21 When Enoch was 65, he had a son named Methuselah, 22 and during the next 300 years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God, 23-24 (B) and God took him away at the age of 365.

25 When Methuselah was 187, he had a son named Lamech. 26 Methuselah had more children 27 and died at the age of 969.

28 When Lamech was one 182, he had a son. 29 Lamech said, “I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort,[a] as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the Lord has put under a curse.” 30 Lamech had more children 31 and died at the age of 777.

32 After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Footnotes

  1. 5.29 Noah … comfort: In Hebrew “Noah” sounds like “comfort.”

Cross references

  1. 5.1,2 : Gn 1.27,28; Mt 19.4; Mk 10.6.
  2. 5.23,24 : Si 44.16; 49.14; He 11.5; Jd 14.

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