This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
- KJV This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- NKJV This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
- NASB This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
- NLT This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself.
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Quick answer
The genealogy of Adam opens by recalling that God made humanity in His own likeness. It anchors human dignity in creation even after the fall.
Overview
This new section, the book of Adam's generations, reaffirms that humanity was made in God's likeness, a dignity not erased by sin. By restating the creation truth before listing the generations, Scripture grounds human worth in the Creator. This image, marred by the fall, is being renewed in those conformed to Christ, the perfect image of God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Eph 4:24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Col 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- Gen 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.”
- Heb 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.
- 1 Cor 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.
- Eccl 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,”
- Eccl 7:29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- Matt 1:1This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
- Heb 12:9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
- 2 Cor 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- Gen 10:1This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
- Luke 3:36–38the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
- 1 Chr 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh,
- Gen 2:4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
- Gen 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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