Descendants of Adam

^1-2God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. The following is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:[#Gn 1.27,28; Mt 19.4; Mk 10.6.]

^3-4When Adam was 130, he had a son who was just like him, and he named him Seth. Adam had more children

⁵and died at the age of 930.

⁶When Seth was 105, he had a son named Enosh.

⁷Seth had more children

⁸and died at the age of 912.

⁹When Enosh was 90, he had a son named Kenan.

¹⁰Enosh had more children

¹¹and died at the age of 905.

¹²When Kenan was 70, he had a son named Mahalalel.

¹³Kenan had more children

¹⁴and died at the age of 910.

¹⁵When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son named Jared.

¹⁶Mahalalel had more children

¹⁷and died at the age of 895.

¹⁸When Jared was 162, he had a son named Enoch.

¹⁹Jared had more children

²⁰and died at the age of 962.

²¹When Enoch was 65, he had a son named Methuselah,

²²and during the next 300 years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God,

^23-24and God took him away at the age of 365.[#Si 44.16; 49.14; He 11.5; Jd 14.]

²⁵When Methuselah was 187, he had a son named Lamech.

²⁶Methuselah had more children

²⁷and died at the age of 969.

²⁸When Lamech was one 182, he had a son.

²⁹Lamech said, “I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort, as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the Lord has put under a curse.”[#5.29 In Hebrew “Noah” sounds like “comfort.”]

³⁰Lamech had more children

³¹and died at the age of 777.

³²After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.