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Adam’s Descendants to Noah and His Sons

This is the book of the generations[a] of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

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Footnotes

  1. 5.1 generations: It should be noted that these genealogies are selective and schematic, and the numbers, as often in the Old Testament, are symbolic.

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