This is a study of the geneology of Adam.
5:1, 2 “This is the scroll of the generations of Adam. In the day that `Elohiym created man, He made him in `Elohiym’s likeness. He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” This highlights the randomness of the chapter and verse divisions. These two verses should really be classified as Gen. 4:27, 28.
This is the first reference of a scroll, and is mirrored by, “The book of the generation of Yahusha the Messiah, the son of Dawid, the son of Abraham.” (Matt. 1:1). It is also a summary of Gen. 2:4-4:26 (Fruchtenbaum p. 125).
Here Adam means both male and female and has the joint reference of Man(kind) and, “Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.” (Gen. 2:24).
List of the sons are not necessarily that of the first-born, but that through which the seed of Khevah will proceed. There must be a clear distinction made between the בְּכוֹרָה #H1062 bekh-or-rar first-born and הַזָּ֑רַע #H2233 ha-eh-rair the Seed. Although בְּכוֹרָה bekh-or-rar has significance, it does not really figure in the line of הַזָּ֑רַע ha-Zeh-rair (for further details see Maxi Bible Study The Seed – First Generation Assembly).
Many times, the בְּכוֹרָה bekh-or-rar is supplanted by הַזָּ֑רַע ha-Zeh-rair:
בְּכוֹרָה bekh-or-rar הַזָּ֑רַע ha-Zeh-rair
Qayin Sayth
Shame Shame
Yishma`el Yitzkhak
Esav Ya`akob
Reuben Yahudah
Zerach Peretz
Eliab Dawid
Amnon Nathan
The following list of names follow a set pattern apart from four variations:
Name,
How old when הַזָּ֑רַע ha-Zeh-rair was born?
Name of הַזָּ֑רַע ha-Zeh-rair
Other children born
How old when he died?
The dates are of the Masoretic calculation and not of LXX. The date of the birth and death of הַזָּ֑רַע ha-Zeh-rair are the same in both cases. The difference being that the LXX years after the birth are 100 years more and to the death are 100 years less.
5:3-5 (first variant) “Adam (man) lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Sayth. The days of Adam after he became the father of Sayth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters. The days of Adam after he became the father of Sayth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters. All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.” This is the first variation. Sayth was made in the likeness of post-Fall Adam and not `Elohiym.
5:6-8 Sayth (appointed, foundation)…105…Enosh…begat sons and daughters…912
5:9-11 Enosh (frailty, mortality)…90…Kenan…begat sons and daughters…905
5:12-14 Kenan (possession, smith)…70…Mahal`el…begat sons and daughters…910
5:15-17 Mahal`el (praise of `El)…65…Yared… begat sons and daughters…895
5:18-20 Yared (descent)…162…Hanokh… begat sons and daughters…962
5:21-24 (second variant) “Hanokh (dedicated, consecrated) lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Metushelakh. Hanokh walked with `Elohiym after he became the father of Metushelakh three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. All the days of Hanokh were three hundred sixty-five years. Hanokh walked with `Elohiym, and he was not, for `Elohiym took him.” Hanokh was said to have walked with `Elohiym, but only after the birth of הַזָּ֑רַע ha-Zeh-rair. This is the same verb הָלַךְ #H1980 har-lakh walk that is used of `Elohiym in `Eden (cf Gen. 3:8). This has the intention of an intimate relationship (cf halakhah in relation to living out Torah), and is also that of a loyal servant (Fruchtenbaum p. 129).
“About these also Hanokh, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, ‘Behold, Yahuah came with ten thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” (Jude 1:14, 15). Jude declares that Hanokh was both a prophet and an evangelist.
It is highly significant that Hanokh did not die but was taken away. This verb לָקַח #H3947 la-kakh to snatch away, take a bride meaning that Hanokh mysteriously disappeared. However, there is a clear explanation as to events, “By faith, Hanokh was taken away, so that he would not see death, and he was not found, because `Elohiym translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to `Elohiym.” (Heb. 11:5). That is, Hanokh was taken from earth into Heaven by `Elohiym. This is a type of the Snatching Away, that all Believers will experience, when the Messiah returns for His Bride.
“It happened, when Yahuah would take up Eliyahu by a whirlwind into heaven…” (2 Kgs. 2:1a). Rabbinic tradition quoted in Midrash Rabbah, Bereishit 25.1, equates this snatching away with Eliyahu being taking up by `Elohiym, (Fruchtenbaum p. 130).
5:25-27 Metushelakh (when he dies it shall come)…187…Lamekh… begat sons and daughters…969. The man with the shortest recorded life on earth begats the man who has longest recorded life of all Mankind. As long as he lived, Yahuah withheld judgement and is a sign of Yahuah’s grace, “The Master is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Pt. 3:9).
5:28-31 (third variant) “Lamekh (powerful, conqueror) lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son, and he named him Noakh, saying, ‘This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahuah has cursed.’ Lamekh lived after he became the father of Noakh five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters. All the days of Lamekh were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.” Lamekh gives a prophetic reason for the naming of הַזָּ֑רַע ha-Zeh-rair in that Noakh will comfort them and give rest from the toil of food production (cf Gen. 3:17).
Metushelakh outlived his father, Lamekh by five years.
Like Khevah, Lamekh knew that Noakh was significant, but misunderstood Noakh for the Messiah.
5:32 (fourth variant) “Noakh (comfort, rest from toil) was five hundred years old, and Noach became the father of Shame, Kham, and Yefet.” By the time Noakh was five hundred years old, he had the three named sons, not having triplets.
Yahuah bless you and keep you,
Yahuah make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you,
Yahuah lift up His face toward you and give you peace.
All glory be to Yahuah,
Ameyn.
References and Credits
In using these references, it is in no way agreeing to or condoning the theological viewpoint of the authors.
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Fruchtenbaum A.G. The Book of Genesis, 6th. Ed., Ariel Mins., San Antonio, TX.
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Strong J. (1994) Strong’s New Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, World Bible Publishers Inc., Madison.
Strong J. (1996) The New Strong’s Complete Dictionary of Bible Words, Thomas Nelson, Nashville.
The Seed – First Generation Assembly
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