51 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
51 This is the written account of Adam's family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
51 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
51 This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God.
51 This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
51 This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 5:1
Commentary on Genesis 5:1-5
(Read Genesis 5:1-5)
Adam was made in the image of God; but when fallen he begat a son in his own image, sinful and defiled, frail, wretched, and mortal, like himself. Not only a man like himself, consisting of body and soul, but a sinner like himself. This was the reverse of that Divine likeness in which Adam was made; having lost it, he could not convey it to his seed. Adam lived, in all, 930 years; and then died, according to the sentence passed upon him, "To dust thou shalt return." Though he did not die in the day he ate forbidden fruit, yet in that very day he became mortal. Then he began to die; his whole life after was but a reprieve, a forfeited, condemned life; it was a wasting, dying life. Man's life is but dying by degrees.