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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 5 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Genesis 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/4.htm" title="Genesis 4">◄</a> Genesis 5 <a href="../genesis/6.htm" title="Genesis 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Descendants of Adam</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.1-Gen.5.2" class="v0_5_1">1-2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.5.1-Gen.5.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. The following is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.3-Gen.5.4" class="v0_5_3">3-4</span>When Adam was 130, he had a son who was just like him, and he named him Seth. Adam had more children </span><span class="v0_5_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.5" class="v0_5_5">5</span>and died at the age of 930.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.6" class="v0_5_6">6</span>When Seth was 105, he had a son named Enosh. </span><span class="v0_5_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.7" class="v0_5_7">7</span>Seth had more children </span><span class="v0_5_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.8" class="v0_5_8">8</span>and died at the age of 912.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.9" class="v0_5_9">9</span>When Enosh was 90, he had a son named Kenan. </span><span class="v0_5_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.10" class="v0_5_10">10</span>Enosh had more children </span><span class="v0_5_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.11" class="v0_5_11">11</span>and died at the age of 905.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.12" class="v0_5_12">12</span>When Kenan was 70, he had a son named Mahalalel. </span><span class="v0_5_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.13" class="v0_5_13">13</span>Kenan had more children </span><span class="v0_5_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.14" class="v0_5_14">14</span>and died at the age of 910.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.15" class="v0_5_15">15</span>When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son named Jared. </span><span class="v0_5_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.16" class="v0_5_16">16</span>Mahalalel had more children </span><span class="v0_5_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.17" class="v0_5_17">17</span>and died at the age of 895.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.18" class="v0_5_18">18</span>When Jared was 162, he had a son named Enoch. </span><span class="v0_5_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.19" class="v0_5_19">19</span>Jared had more children </span><span class="v0_5_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.20" class="v0_5_20">20</span>and died at the age of 962.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.21" class="v0_5_21">21</span>When Enoch was 65, he had a son named Methuselah, </span><span class="v0_5_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.22" class="v0_5_22">22</span>and during the next 300 years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God, </span><span class="v0_5_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.23-Gen.5.24" class="v0_5_23">23-24</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.5.23-Gen.5.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and God took him away at the age of 365.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_25"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.25" class="v0_5_25">25</span>When Methuselah was 187, he had a son named Lamech. </span><span class="v0_5_26"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.26" class="v0_5_26">26</span>Methuselah had more children </span><span class="v0_5_27"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.27" class="v0_5_27">27</span>and died at the age of 969.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_28"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.28" class="v0_5_28">28</span>When Lamech was one 182, he had a son. </span><span class="v0_5_29"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.29" class="v0_5_29">29</span>Lamech said, “I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.5.29!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has put under a curse.” </span><span class="v0_5_30"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.30" class="v0_5_30">30</span>Lamech had more children </span><span class="v0_5_31"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.31" class="v0_5_31">31</span>and died at the age of 777.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_5_32"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.5.32" class="v0_5_32">32</span>After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons and named them Shem, Ham, and Japheth.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.29 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Noah … comfort: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In Hebrew “Noah” sounds like “comfort.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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