Genesis 5

The Descendants of Adam

¹This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself.

²He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them “Human Beings.”)

³When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth.

⁴After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children

⁵and died at the age of 930.

⁶When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enosh,

⁷and then lived another 807 years. He had other children

⁸and died at the age of 912.

⁹When Enosh was 90, he had a son, Kenan,

¹⁰and then lived another 815 years. He had other children

¹¹and died at the age of 905.

¹²When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel,

¹³and then lived another 840 years. He had other children

¹⁴and died at the age of 910.

¹⁵When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared,

¹⁶and then lived another 830 years. He had other children

¹⁷and died at the age of 895.

¹⁸When Jared was 162, he had a son, Enoch,

¹⁹and then lived another 800 years. He had other children

²⁰and died at the age of 962.

²¹When Enoch was 65, he had a son, Methuselah.

²²After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children.

²³He lived to be 365 years old.

²⁴He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.

²⁵When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech,

²⁶and then lived another 782 years. He had other children

²⁷and died at the age of 969.

²⁸When Lamech was 182, he had a son

²⁹and said, “From the very ground on which the Lord put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah.

³⁰Lamech lived another 595 years. He had other children

³¹and died at the age of 777.

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