Lessons
Genesis 5:1-32
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;…


1. Providence hath made a sufficient register of the Church's rise and growth and state, for faith, not for curiosity.

2. God's will is made out, that His Church was to be propagated by generation, not creation.

3. The generations of the Church were ordered to be from Adam fallen, that grace might appear.

4. God's blessing makes man only fruitful to propagate His Church.

(G. Hughes, B. D.)



Parallel Verses
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.




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