Genesis 5 — Rabbi

Genesis 5:1

זֶ֣ה

zeh

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that סֵ֔פֶר

çêpher

properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book תּוֹלְדֹ֖ת

tôwlᵉdâh

(plural only) descent, i.e. family; (figuratively) history אָדָ֑ם

ʼÂdâm

Adam the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine בְּי֗וֹם

yôwm

in/with/by — a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb) בְּרֹ֤א

bârâʼ

(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes) אֱלֹהִים֙

ʼĕlôhîym

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative אָדָ֔ם

ʼâdâm

ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.) בִּדְמ֥וּת

dᵉmûwth

in/with/by — resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like אֱלֹהִ֖ים

ʼĕlôhîym

ʻâsâh

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application אֹתֽוֹ

ʼêth

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

Genesis 5:1 · Masoretic Text (WLC)

AMPLIFIED · 1 of 3

This is the book (the written record, the history) of the generations of [the descendants of] Adam. When God created man, He made him in the

Recurring Theme

This genealogy opens by deliberately repeating the "image/likeness" language from the sixth day of creation, three chapters and one catastro…likeness

Recurring Theme

This genealogy opens by deliberately repeating the "image/likeness" language from the sixth day of creation, three chapters and one catastro… of God [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]

Recurring Theme

This genealogy opens by deliberately repeating the "image/likeness" language from the sixth day of creation, three chapters and one catastro….

Rabbi's unlock

▦Genesis 5:1New

This heading — "the book of the history of Adam" — opens a section that Cassuto argues runs all the way through 6:8, not just to the end of this chapter. The evidence: 6:8's closing line, "Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD," deliberately echoes this opening's own language ("God created man... and blessed them"), and the next new heading doesn't appear until 6:9's "the history of Noah." The whole genealogy, in other words, is bracketed on purpose — creation and blessing on one end, favor on the other.

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↔ Rabbi noticed a connection

"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness" — the creation language this genealogy deliberately echoes, after the fall.

Luke 3:38 runs its genealogy all the way back to this same source, naming Adam himself "the son of God" - the divine likeness this chapter opened with, still on the record generations later.

Genesis 5:1 · WEB

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

Genesis 1:26 · WEB

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Luke 3:38 · WEB

the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

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Today's memory verse · from this session

“This is the book (the written record, the history) of the generations of [the descendants of] Adam. When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness].”

Genesis 5:1

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