Gênesis 5

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¹Este é o livro das gerações de Adão. No dia em que Deus creou o homem, á similhança de Deus o fez

²Macho e femea os creou; e os abençoou, e chamou o seu nome Adão, no dia em que foram creados.

³E Adão viveu cento e trinta annos, e gerou um filho á sua similhança, conforme á sua imagem e chamou o seu nome Seth.

⁴E foram os dias de Adão, depois que gerou a Seth, oitocentos annos: e gerou filhos e filhas.

⁵E foram todos os dias que Adão viveu, novecentos e trinta annos; e morreu.

⁶E viveu Seth cento e cinco annos, e gerou a Enos.

⁷E viveu Seth, depois que gerou a Enos, oitocentos e sete annos, e gerou filhos e filhas.

⁸E foram todos os dias de Seth novecentos e doze annos; e morreu.

⁹E viveu Enos noventa annos; e gerou a Cainan.

¹⁰E viveu Enos, depois que gerou a Cainan, oitocentos e quinze annos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

¹¹E foram todos os dias de Enos novecentos e cinco annos; e morreu.

¹²E viveu Cainan, setenta annos; e gerou a Mahalalel.

¹³E viveu Cainan, depois que gerou a Mahalalel, oitocentos e quarenta annos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

¹⁴E foram todos os dias de Cainan novecentos e dez annos; e morreu.

¹⁵E viveu Mahalalel sessenta e cinco annos; e gerou a Jared.

¹⁶E viveu Mahalalel, depois que gerou a Jared, oitocentos e trinta annos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

¹⁷E foram todos os dias de Mahalalel oitocentos e noventa e cinco annos; e morreu.

¹⁸E viveu Jared cento e sessenta e dois annos; e gerou a Enoch.

¹⁹E viveu Jared, depois que gerou a Enoch, oitocentos annos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

²⁰E foram todos os dias de Jared novecentos e sessenta e dois annos; e morreu.

²¹E viveu Enoch sessenta e cinco annos; e gerou a Methusala.

²²E andou Enoch com Deus, depois que gerou a Methusala, trezentos annos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

²³E foram todos os dias de Enoch trezentos e sessenta e cinco annos.

²⁴E andou Enoch com Deus; e não estava mais; porquanto Deus para si o tomou.

²⁵E viveu Methusala cento e oitenta e sete annos; e gerou a Lamech.

²⁶E viveu Methusala, depois que gerou a Lamech, setecentos e oitenta e dois annos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

²⁷E foram todos os dias de Methusala novecentos e sessenta e nove annos; e morreu.

²⁸E viveu Lamech cento e oitenta e dois annos; e gerou um filho,

²⁹E chamou o seu nome Noé, dizendo: Este nos consolará ácerca de nossas obras, e do trabalho de nossas mãos, por causa da terra que o Senhor amaldiçoou.

³⁰E viveu Lamech, depois que gerou a Noé, quinhentos e noventa e cinco annos; e gerou filhos e filhas.

³¹E foram todos os dias de Lamech setecentos e setenta e sete annos; e morreu.

³²E era Noé da edade de quinhentos annos; e gerou Noé a Sem, Cão, e Japhet.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

The genealogy from Adam to Noah is presented, listing the ages and sons of each patriarch, with special mention of Enoch, who 'walked with God' and was taken by him.

Explanation

Genealogical lists like this one may seem tedious, but they served a serious purpose: to show real historical continuity between creation and the events that followed, like a registry office record of the human family. The extremely long ages were common in ancient Near Eastern texts to describe a special primeval era. Amid the repetition of 'and he died,' the case of Enoch stands out as a brilliant exception: he is not said to have died, but that 'God took him' — a rare biblical example of someone taken to heaven without passing through death, a reward for a life of close communion with God. The practical message here is that, amid routine and mortality, a life lived close to God stands out and is remembered.

Fun facts

Enoch lived 365 years — a number that matches the days of the solar year, which scholars note as a possible link to ancient calendars of the region, although the text does not directly explain this coincidence.
Enoch is mentioned again in Hebrews 11:5 and Jude 14-15, in the New Testament, as an example of faith and as someone who prophesied the final judgment — showing how characters from Genesis reappear elsewhere in the Bible.

Verse-by-verse explanation

Gênesis 5:1A new genealogical list begins here, tracing Adam’s descendants down to Noah at the end of the chapter. The text picks up the language of chapter 1, recalling that humanity was made ‘in the likeness of God,’ to connect this list back to creation.
Gênesis 5:2It repeats that man and woman were created together and that the two, as a couple, received the collective name ‘Adam’ — the same name that also becomes the proper name of the first man in the list that follows.
Gênesis 5:3This line repeats almost the same words used in chapter 1 to describe the creation of man in God’s image — except now it’s Adam fathering Seth in his own image. The text is showing that this mark of being made in someone’s image passes from father to son, generation after generation, even after everything that happened in the garden.
Gênesis 5:4This closes out Adam’s entry in the list with the pattern that will repeat for each person: how many years he lived after having the son mentioned, and that he had other sons and daughters besides him.
Gênesis 5:5This records Adam’s death at 930 years old — the first death told with an exact number in the Bible, fulfilling the warning that the human being, taken from dust, would one day return to it.
Gênesis 5:6Seth’s entry in the list begins, the son who replaced Abel: at 105 he fathers Enos, carrying forward the line that continues down to Noah.
Gênesis 5:7Following the list’s pattern: after fathering Enos, Seth lived another 807 years, having other sons and daughters over that time.
Gênesis 5:8This closes out Seth’s entry, who lived 912 years in all before he died — one of the longest lives recorded in this genealogy.
Gênesis 5:9Enos, Seth’s son, fathers Cainan at 90, continuing the line that runs down to Noah.
Gênesis 5:10After fathering Cainan, Enos went on to live 815 more years, having more sons and daughters during that time.
Gênesis 5:11This closes out Enos’s entry in the list, who lived 905 years in all.
Gênesis 5:12Cainan fathers Mahalaleel at 70, continuing the same line that links Adam to Noah.
Gênesis 5:13After fathering Mahalaleel, Cainan lived 840 more years, having other sons and daughters.
Gênesis 5:14Cainan lives 910 years, close to the average for this line between Adam and Noah — well short of Methuselah’s 969 years, the record for longevity in the whole Bible.
Gênesis 5:15Mahalaleel fathers Jared at 65, continuing the same line that links Adam all the way down to Noah.
Gênesis 5:16After fathering Jared, Mahalaleel lived 830 more years, with other sons and daughters.
Gênesis 5:17Mahalaleel lives 895 years, one of the shortest spans among the ten generations listed here — only Lamech, Noah’s father, would live less time than him.
Gênesis 5:18Jared fathers Enoch at 162 — the father of the most unusual figure on this list, whose different fate is told in the verses that follow.
Gênesis 5:19After fathering Enoch, Jared lived 800 more years, with other sons and daughters.
Gênesis 5:20This closes out Jared’s entry, who lived 962 years in all, one of the longest lives on the list, even though it doesn’t beat the record set by his grandson Methuselah.
Gênesis 5:21Enoch fathers Methuselah at 65 — the start of a life marked by a unique detail the text highlights in the very next verse.
Gênesis 5:22After fathering Methuselah, the text changes the verb used for Enoch: instead of saying he merely ‘lived,’ it says he ‘walked with God’ — an expression of closeness that foreshadows the unusual ending told in 5:24.
Gênesis 5:23In all, Enoch lived 365 years — far less than the others on this list, but a number that matches the days of a year, which some read as one more sign that his life was different from the rest.
Gênesis 5:24Enoch is the only one on the list who does not receive the phrase ‘and he died’ at the end — instead, the text says he ‘walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.’ The narrative doesn’t detail how that happened, it only marks that his ending was different from every other name in this genealogy.
Gênesis 5:25Methuselah fathers Lamech at 187, continuing the line that reaches down to Noah, his great-grandson.
Gênesis 5:26After fathering Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 more years, having other sons and daughters over that very long stretch of time.
Gênesis 5:27Methuselah, at 969 years old, holds the record on the list — the oldest person named in the whole Bible. The enormous ages in this chapter puzzle readers today, and scholars offer more than one explanation: some think the years were counted differently than ours, others that the numbers were symbolic, tied to a figure’s prestige rather than a literal count the way we do now.
Gênesis 5:28Lamech fathers a son at 182 — his name is only revealed in the next verse, along with the reason for choosing it.
Gênesis 5:29The name ‘Noah’ sounds, in Hebrew, close to the word for ‘to comfort’ — that’s why the text immediately explains the reason for the name, linking the newborn son to the hope of relief from the hard labor on the cursed ground. It’s another case of a biblical name chosen for both sound and meaning, not by chance.
Gênesis 5:30After fathering Noah, Lamech lived 595 more years, having other sons and daughters.
Gênesis 5:31This closes out Lamech’s entry, who lived 777 years in all, ending the list of generations before reaching Noah.
Gênesis 5:32At 500 years old, Noah fathers three sons — Shem, Ham, and Japheth — whose names will come up again and again in the flood story starting in the next chapter.