3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
3 When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was just like him, his very spirit and image, and named him Seth.
3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
3 When Adam was 130Â years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him-in his very image. He named his son Seth.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 5:3
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.