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Genesis 5:1

Adam
Creation
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own 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;
WEB
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
ASV
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
DARBY
This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
BLB
This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day God created man, in the likeness of God He made him.
ÅB
Dette er boken om Adams etterkommere: På den dag Gud skapte mennesket, skapte han det i Guds lignelse.
OTB
Dette er boken om Adams slektshistorie. Den dagen Gud skapte mennesket, gjorde Han dem i Guds likhet.
B1930
Dette er boken om Adams ætt: På den dag Gud skapte mennesket, skapte han det i Guds lignelse.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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  • Ephesians 4:24

    And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

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  • Colossians 3:10

    And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

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  • Genesis 1:26–27

    And 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.

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  • Hebrews 1:3

    Who 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;

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  • 1 Corinthians 11:7

    For 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.

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  • Ecclesiastes 12:1

    Remember 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;

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  • Ecclesiastes 7:29

    Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

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  • Hebrews 12:9

    Furthermore 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?

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