This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
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This is a very interesting chapter, though, at the first view, if seems to contain nothing but the pedigree of the first patriarchs. But when we consider that this is the pedigree which, uniformly leads on to the promised seed, and ends not, until it is summed up in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is not what the apostle calls the fables of endless genealogies, (1 Timothy 1:4) but contains the power of an endless life. Hebrews 7:16. This chapter is further remarkable, for containing the short lives, and short history of the patriarchs, before the flood, including no less a period than 1656 years.