Chapter 5

5:1    This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made :them like himself.

5:2    He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them “Human Beings.”)

5:3    When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him and named him Seth.

5:4    After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children

5:5    and died at the age of 930.

5:6    When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enosh,

5:7    and then lived another 807 years. He had other children

5:8    and died at the age of 912.

5:9    When Enosh was 90, he had a son, Kenan,

5:10    and then lived another 815 years. He had other children

5:11    and died at the age of 905.

5:12    When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel,

5:13    and then lived another 840 years. He had other children

5:14    and died at the age of 910.

5:15    When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared,

5:16    and then lived another 830 years. He had other children

5:17    and died at the age of 895.

5:18    When Jared was 162, He had a son, Enoch,

5:19    and then lived another 800 years. He had other children

5:20    and died at the age of 962.

5:21    When Enoch was 65, he had a son, Methuselah.

5:22    After that, Enoch lived with fellowship with God for 300 years an had other children.

5:23    He lived to be 365 years old.

5:24    He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.

5:25    When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech,

5:26    and then lived another 782 years. He had other children 

5:27    and died at the age of 969.

5:28    When Lamech was 182, he had a son

5:29    and said, “From the very ground on which the LORD put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all out hard work”; so he named him Noah.

5:30    Lamech lived another 595 years. He had other children

5:31    and died at the age of 777.

5:32    After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.