Chapter 5
Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1This is the record of the generations of Adam. On the day God created Adam, he made him in the likeness of God.
2Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Adam on the day they were created.
3Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and he fathered a son in his likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.
4The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
5All the days Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
6Seth lived one hundred and five years, and he fathered Enosh.
7Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he fathered Enosh, and he fathered sons and daughters.
8All the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
9Enosh lived ninety years, and he fathered Kenan.
10Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he fathered Kenan, and he fathered sons and daughters.
11All the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
12Kenan lived seventy years, and he fathered Mahalalel.
13Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he fathered Mahalalel, and he fathered sons and daughters.
14All the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
15Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and he fathered Jared.
16Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he fathered Jared, and he fathered sons and daughters.
17All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.
18Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and he fathered Enoch.
19Jared lived eight hundred years after he fathered Enoch, and he fathered sons and daughters.
20All the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.
21Enoch lived sixty-five years, and he fathered Methuselah.
22Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah, and he fathered sons and daughters.
23All the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24Enoch walked with God, and he was not there, because God took him.
25Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and he fathered Lamech.
26Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he fathered Lamech, and he fathered sons and daughters.
27All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.
28Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and he fathered a son.
29He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us from our work and from the pain of our hands, from the ground that Yahweh has cursed.”
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The name Noah sits next to the verb “rest.” The reason given in the sentence uses a different verb, “comfort.” Both words are in the Hebrew, and both are kept.
30Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he fathered Noah, and he fathered sons and daughters.
31All the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.
32Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.