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Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Genesis 5

Gen 5:1-5

Gen 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Adam

Adam, as the natural head of the race (Luke 3:38) is a contrasting type of Christ, the Head of the new creation. See Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 15:21, 22, 45-47.

in the likeness of God

Gen 1:27.

Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Male and female

Mar 10:6.

Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

died

Death (physical). Gen 6:17. (Gen 3:19; Heb 9:27.)


Gen 5:6-32—The family of Seth

Gen 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

Enoch

Enoch, "translated that he should not see death" (Hebrews 11:5) before the judgment of the Flood, is a type of those saints who are to be translated before the apocalyptic judgments (1 Thessalonians 4:14-17). Noah, left on the earth, but preserved through the judgment of the Flood, is a type of the Jewish people, who will be kept through the apocalyptic judgments (Jeremiah 30:5-9; Revelation 12:13-16) and brought as an earthly people to the new heaven and new earth (Isaiah 65:17-19; 66:20-22; Revelation 21:1).

walked with God

Faith. vs. 22-24; Gen 6:22. (Gen 3:20; Heb 11:39.)

Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

took him

Miracles (O.T.). Gen 7:11. (Gen 5:24; Jon 2:1-10.)

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