When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- KJV And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- BSB When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
- NKJV And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- NASB When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
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Adam fathers Seth in his own likeness and image at age 130. It shows the image of God passed on through human generations, now bearing Adam's fallen likeness too.
Overview
Adam fathers Seth in his own likeness and image, language echoing humanity's creation in God's likeness. The phrasing shows that the image of God is transmitted through the generations, yet now alongside Adam's fallen nature. This sets the pattern for the genealogy, tracing the line through which God's redemptive purpose advances.
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 4:25Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”
- Rom 5:12Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
- Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Ps 14:2–3Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
- Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
- John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- 1 Cor 15:39All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
- Luke 1:35The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
- Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
- Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
- Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
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