This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
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;
- BSB This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.
- 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 put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
- Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
- Gen 1:26–27God 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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
- Heb 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- 1 Cor 11:7For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
- Eccl 12:1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
- Eccl 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
- Matt 1:1The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
- Heb 12:9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
- Gen 10:1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them 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 history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
- Gen 6:9This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. 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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