“The reason for this break in the narrative [in the description of the genealogies to the flood] was, I take it, that the writer, as though bidden by God, was unwilling to have the beginning of world chronology reckoned from the earthly city (that is, from the generation of Cain), and so he deliberately went back to Ad…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — City of God 15.21
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1This 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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— Genesis 5:1 —
2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: