Holy Scripture

Genesis 5:1

A church father on this verse
“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

Source: Septuagint

Original

1This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:

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— Genesis 5:1 —

2male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.

3And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.

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