The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
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The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
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And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
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And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.
Cross-references (15)
Passages linked to Genesis 5:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 1:1-3 Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
- Luke 3:36-38 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
- Genesis 5:7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters
- Genesis 5:19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:22 After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 1:28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
- Genesis 9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
- Genesis 9:7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
- Genesis 11:12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
- Psalms 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Psalms 144:12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 4. And the days of Adam after he had…
4. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth. In the number of years here recorded we must especially consider the long period which the patriarchs lived together. For through six successive ages, when the family of Seth had grown into a great people, the voice of Adam might daily resound, in order to renew the memory of the creation, the fall, and the punishment of man; to testify of the hope of salvation which remained after chastisement, and to recite the judgments of God, by which all might be instructed. After his death his sons might indeed deliver, as from hand to hand, what they had learned, to their descendants; but far more efficacious would be the instruction from the mouth of him, who had been himself the eyewitness of all these things. Yet so wonderful, and even monstrous, was the general obstinacy, that not even the sounder part of the human race could be retained in the obedience and the fear of God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 5:4 And the days of Adam after he…
Gen 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Ver. 4. He begat sons and daughters.] Philo and Epiphanius give him twelve sons; Beda thirty sons, and as many daughters.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Whose names and numbers are here passed over in…
Whose names and numbers are here passed over in silence, as not belonging to the genealogy of Christ, nor to the following history.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the days of Adam, after he had begotten…
And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years,.... The Septuagint version is seven hundred; for having added one hundred years more the should be, to the years of his life before the birth of Seth, here they are taken away to make the number of his years complete:
and he begat sons and daughters; not only after the birth of Seth, but before, though we have no account of any, unless of Cain's wife; but what their number was is not certain, either before or after; some say he had thirty children, besides Cain, Abel, and Seth; and others a hundred (c). Josephus says the number of children, according to the old tradition, was thirty three sons and twenty three daughters. (d)(These families had at least five children, for one son is named as well as other sons and daughters. Therefore there must be at least three sons and two daughters in each family. For a family to have at least three sons and two daughters, according to the laws of chance, a family must on the average have nine children for this to be a near certainty. Hence the families listed in this chapter must have been large by today's standards. Given their long life, this is not at all unusual. However even today, the Old Order Mennonites of Waterloo County in Ontario and Lancaster County in Pennsylvannia, have many families this large. Ed.)
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(c) Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 74. 2. (d) Joseph. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 1. footnote on point 3.
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