This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
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.
- BSB This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
- 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 that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
- Col 3:10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
- Gen 1:26–27And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- 1 Cor 11:7For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
- Eccl 12:1Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
- Eccl 7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Matt 1:1The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
- Heb 12:9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
- Gen 10:1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- Luke 3:36–38Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
- 1 Chr 1:1Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
- Gen 2:4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
- Gen 6:9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and 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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