[5:1] This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself.
[5:2] He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them “Human Beings.”)
[5:3] When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth.
[5:4] After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children
[5:5] and died at the age of 930.
[5:6] When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enosh,
[5:7] and then lived another 807 years. He had other children
[5:8] and died at the age of 912.
[5:9] When Enosh was 90, he had a son, Kenan,
[5:10] and then lived another 815 years. He had other children
[5:11] and died at the age of 905.
[5:12] When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel,
[5:13] and then lived another 840 years. He had other children
[5:14] and died at the age of 910.
[5:15] When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared,
[5:16] and then lived another 830 years. He had other children
[5:17] and died at the age of 895.
[5:18] When Jared was 162, he had a son, Enoch,
[5:19] and then lived another 800 years. He had other children
[5:20] and died at the age of 962.
[5:21] When Enoch was 65, he had a son, Methuselah.
[5:22] After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children.
[5:23] He lived to be 365 years old.
[5:24] He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.
[5:25] When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech,
[5:26] and then lived another 782 years. He had other children
[5:27] and died at the age of 969.
[5:28] When Lamech was 182, he had a son
[5:29] and said, “From the very ground on which the Lord put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah.
[5:30] Lamech lived another 595 years. He had other children
[5:31] and died at the age of 777.
[5:32] After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.