1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- It's interesting to note that this says that this is "the book of the Generations of Adam." This suggests that Genesis is a compilation of many books separately written over periods of time thrown together, and even possibly made to fit into some kind of chronological order. Now Adam, as we'll see in the next verse, as well as hinted at in previous verses and also generalized by the word "man/the man," is actually the name of a colony of men. In the last chapter, it went off into a tangent of six generations of Cain, then suddenly went back into the time of Adam and Eve's generation of children to start all over. It is actually unknown how much time has passed thus far since the beginning of the creation story because it has never actually stated just how much time actually passed before Eve at the fruit.
2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Here, male and female are generalized as "them," and "their" name is Adam, in the day when "they" were created. This coincides with Genesis 1:26. Adam is indeed the name of a colony of men. In various other ancient texts and legends, they are actually referred to and called "Adamu." In the Bible's case, they should be called the "Adamites."
3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
- It's interesting to note that here we have "in his own likeness, after his image" again as in the context of God creating man in his image. This verse clearly puts it into the context of Seth looking like his father. People like to argue that "God always existed," and that we needed a creator in order for us to exist ourselves. But how can a being that has a human form always exist without needing a creator himself? Our form comes from physical matter. Where does the matter come from for God's physical form? How can he be omnipresent if he has a defined form? And where does his power to spontaneously create matter come from?
4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
- Here, Adam has many children, but only Seth seems to be important enough to name. Specific bloodlines are a VERY important theme throughout the entire Bible. With that in mind, the only reason all these names mentioned here in this "book" of the generations of Adam are important enough to mention by name is because it follows a specific bloodline path straight to Noah.
5And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
- Here, Adam lives a total of 930 years, which is naturally impossible. It's more likely that ancient methods of timing a year were very different and much shorter. It's interesting to note that later on, God supposedly makes the age limit about 120 years. God sounds like a Geneticist who messed with DNA and our aging genes. Or perhaps it's more likely that a method of more accurately timing a year was discovered and later applied.
- It's also worth mentioning that the ancient Sumerians deified their kings with ridiculous ages up to around an incredible 28,000 years through oral tradition, but when writing started become more popular in their culture, their records regarding the ages of their kings began to be realistically depicted. I will also mention again that Sumerians have incredible carvings and records of their origins that will amaze you. I highly recommend learning about them. Zecharia Sitchin has done incredible work in that field.
6And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: 7And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Here again, and throughout the rest of these generations of Adam up until Noah, it mentions that of all the children Seth has, importance is stressed on only Enos.
8And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. 9And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
- It's interesting to note that "Cainan" could very well be either named after Cain, or Cain himself, but with "an" at the end of the name in this verse. If Cainan is indeed Cain, then he is the descendant of Adam by 3 generations of children.
- The Hebrew, Aramaic, and Egyptian languages are interesting in that vowels and even some consonants are interchangeable. For example, the Egyptian sun God "Amen" can be spelled "Amen, Amun," or "Omon" along with other spellings.
- I'll point out some striking similarities with names in Cain's Bloodline, and Adam's bloodline later on as I get to them.
10And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: 11And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. 12And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel: 13And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: 14And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. 15And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: 16And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: 17And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. 18And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Now here is possibly a second Enoch. Ironically enough, he came after Cainan.
- Now if Cainan is indeed Cain, then Enoch is a 3rd generation descendant of Cain like "Cainan" is a 3rd generation descendant of Adam.
20And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
- Now here's where it gets interesting. In Cain's bloodline from the previous chapter, Enoch gives birth to Methusael. As I mentioned earlier, ancient languages from Egypt and before, vowels and some consonants were interchangeable. Methusael and Methuselah are very strikingly similar, and very possibly the same person as I'll point out soon.
22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- 24 is a very famous verse. This does not say where God took Enoch, but people assume it's heaven. People also take the phrase "walking with God" as a metaphor of serving God. Where did God take him exactly, though? So far in the Bible's context, heaven up to this point is literally the sky. This sounds more like a UFO abduction more than it does God giving Enoch a shortcut to heaven by avoiding death. Not even Jesus was given this "shortcut" of avoiding death.
25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
- In Cain's bloodline, Methusael gives birth to Lamech. This verse pretty much confirms that these bloodlines are the same. Cain's bloodline compared to Adam's bloodlines are incredibly similar when viewed in the right way.
Cain- .............................Cainan- 2 generations -
Enoch -2 generations-........ Enoch -
Methusael - ....................Methuselah -
Lamech - ....................... Lamech -
Jabal, Jubal, Tubalcain- ... Noah -
-END-............................ Shem, Ham, Japheth
- If Cain was cast out and away from where Adam resides, then what do you think the odds would be of some of these people are naming their children some similar and exact names that Cain named his children? The odds are overwhelmingly very small. This is supposed to be in a time where people were inventing names. Common names shouldn't even be established by now in the story.
- Either which way, everyone is of Adam's bloodline. The only difference is that between the two stories of these generations of father and son, Cain's bloodlines in the previous chapter has a more likely chance of being shortened up and generations skipped in some way for whatever reasons.
- In this chapter, Adam's bloodline up until Noah seems to be a more complete version of Adam's bloodlines. Cain and Able should be the first sons mentioned, not Seth. People assume it skips them in this part since Cain and Able are mentioned in the last chapter. That may not be the reason, however.
- In the beginning of this chapter as I mentioned, it says "This is the book of generations of Adam." So this is probably a separate account and therefore the most accurate of the bloodlines compared to the portrayal of Cain's bloodlines in the last chapter. Also, no references of time were mentioned in the last chapter depicting Cain's bloodline.
26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. 28And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
- Now this is VERY interesting in two ways. One is that it's prophetic in a way by saying "Noah shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands-" How can Lamech know anything about what Noah is going to do before Noah is grown and does it? God is not credited as telling Lamech anything. This suggests the author of this book has some kind of foreknowledge. (This same application of foreknowledge can explain why many of the "prophecies" throughout the Bible seem to have been fulfilled. They were MADE to be fulfilled by the authors when the stories were finally wrote down and/or edited when they were put together into one book or document.)
- The last part is "-the ground, which the Lord has cursed." When did God supposedly "curse" the ground? The answer to that is when God cursed the ground of Cain for killing Abel when God said "When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength." (Gen 4:12) This is definitely another link along with the names in Cain's bloodlines from the last chapter and in this chapter of Adam's bloodlines.
30And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
- In the last chapter, Lamech is said to have had two wives, and had at least three children that were named. This chapter and verse confirms that Lamech had more children than Noah that are not named here. As I pointed out earlier, only the name of the important children are listed here out of all the children that each of the respective parents had. Lamech's other children aren't important enough to name in this chapter, which is "the book of the generations of Adam."
31And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
- Lamech lived to be 777 years old. People associate 777 as God's "number" compared to the Devil's "number" of 666. Just figured I'd point that out.
32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- In this verse, the author listed the names of all three of Noah's sons because he thought that they important enough to name. And we all know why that is.
- By the time Noah is 500 years old, 1556 years have passed based on this chapter alone. If you add the 95 years that Noah's father has left after Noah turned 500, then it's 1651 years.
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