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    Genesis 5

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    Enoch walks with God for 300 years, reaches 365, and then leaves the family line without the customary notice of death.

    From Adam to Jaredvv. 1–20

    The generations begin with Adam, made in the likeness of God, and Seth, born in Adam’s own likeness. From Seth to Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, and Jared, the pattern is grandly repetitive: a son is born, other sons and daughters appear, an astonishing number of years pass, and then the father dies. Even the longest lives are given the same small final door.

    The man who is no morevv. 21–24

    Enoch becomes the father of Methuselah at sixty-five, then walks with God for three hundred years while having other sons and daughters. His total is only 365 years, a modest figure beside Jared’s 962, but the real oddity arrives at the end: Enoch is not said to die. He is simply no more, because God has taken him away—a wonderfully abrupt interruption in a very orderly family procession.

    Methuselah, Lamech, and Noahvv. 25–32

    Methuselah fathers Lamech and lives 969 years before the old formula returns. Lamech’s own life ends at 777, a strikingly neat number left entirely unexplained, while his son Noah arrives with a name and a hope: comfort from the labor and toil caused by the cursed ground. At the close, Noah is five hundred years old and becomes the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; the genealogy ends with three names waiting in the wings.

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    1. Gen 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

    2. Gen 5:2Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”

    3. Gen 5:3When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

    4. Gen 5:4And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

    5. Gen 5:5So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

    6. Gen 5:6When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.

    7. Gen 5:7And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

    8. Gen 5:8So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

    9. Gen 5:9When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan.

    10. Gen 5:10And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

    11. Gen 5:11So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

    12. Gen 5:12When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.

    13. Gen 5:13And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

    14. Gen 5:14So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

    15. Gen 5:15When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.

    16. Gen 5:16And after he had become the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

    17. Gen 5:17So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

    18. Gen 5:18When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch.

    19. Gen 5:19And after he had become the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

    20. Gen 5:20So Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

    21. Gen 5:21When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.

    22. Gen 5:22And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

    23. Gen 5:23So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

    24. Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

    25. Gen 5:25When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.

    26. Gen 5:26And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

    27. Gen 5:27So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

    28. Gen 5:28When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son.

    29. Gen 5:29And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

    30. Gen 5:30And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

    31. Gen 5:31So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

    32. Gen 5:32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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    • 24Hebrews 11:5–6By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
    • 1Ephesians 4:24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
    • 1Colossians 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
    • 1Genesis 1:26–27Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
    • 241 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
    • 221 Thessalonians 2:12encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
    • 1Hebrews 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
    • 22Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
    • 24Genesis 5:22And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
    • 2Mark 10:6However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
    • 2Matthew 19:4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
    • 11 Corinthians 11:7A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
    • 1Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
    • 2Genesis 2:23And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
    • 22Malachi 2:6True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
    • 22Genesis 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

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