4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
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Adam, Sheth, Enosh, …
Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, …
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)I. His creation, Gen. 5:1 , 2 , where we have a brief rehearsal of what was before at large related concerning the creation of man. This is what we have need frequently to hear of and carefully to acquaint ourselves with. Observe here, 1. That God created man . Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director of his motions and the…
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