This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
1. This is the book of the generations of Adam . In this chapter Moses briefly recites the length of time which had intervened between the creation of the world and the deluge; and also slightly touches on some portion of the history of that period.
This genealogy traces the holy seed through whom Christ came in the flesh. Mark well: man is not his own maker and therefore not his own master; God who made him must direct him. Male and female both bear God's likeness, so between the sexes there is no great inequality as some falsely imagine.
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Commenting on Genesis 5:1-5
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...