Genesis - Chapter 5 | Good News Translation

  • 1. This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself.
  • 2. He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them "Human Beings.")
  • 3. When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth.
  • 4. After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children
  • 5. and died at the age of 930.
  • 6. When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enosh,
  • 7. and then lived another 807 years. He had other children
  • 8. and died at the age of 912.
  • 9. When Enosh was 90, he had a son, Kenan,
  • 10. and then lived another 815 years. He had other children
  • 11. and died at the age of 905.
  • 12. When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel,
  • 13. and then lived another 840 years. He had other children
  • 14. and died at the age of 910.
  • 15. When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared,
  • 16. and then lived another 830 years. He had other children
  • 17. and died at the age of 895.
  • 18. When Jared was 162, he had a son, Enoch,
  • 19. and then lived another 800 years. He had other children
  • 20. and died at the age of 962.
  • 21. When Enoch was 65, he had a son, Methuselah.
  • 22. After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children.
  • 23. He lived to be 365 years old.
  • 24. He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.
  • 25. When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech,
  • 26. and then lived another 782 years. He had other children
  • 27. and died at the age of 969.
  • 28. When Lamech was 182, he had a son
  • 29. and 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.
  • 30. Lamech lived another 595 years. He had other children
  • 31. and died at the age of 777.
  • 32. After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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