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Genesis Chapter 5 Answers
This webpage provides answers for the Genesis Bible study daily questions on chapter five.
We pray that God will reveal His Holy Word in a way that blesses and comforts you.
DAY ONE
Questions and Answers
1. In verse 1 we see the language “the written account”. What does or could this imply?
That this is the actual written account versus the verbal account
That their was previously a written account handed down from Moses ancestors
2. What are some possible reasons that Adam lived so long a life before he had his son Seth?
3. What is the difference between Adam being made in the likeness of God (Chapter 5 verse 1; Chapter 1 verse 26) and Seth being made in the image of Adam (Chapter 5 verse 3)?
Adam was made in the likeness of God in that he was created (he was not born) without sin and knew no evil
But through him sin came into the world:
Rom 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned-
Seth was made in the likeness of Adam, a sinner, a mortal man who was dieing and would see death because of sin:
Rom 5:17
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Like Adam, Seth also died.
DAY TWO
Questions and Answers
4. What does the Bible teach us in the following verses about death?
- Rom 5:12, Rom 5:17 - Sin, and therefore death, came through Adam to all
- Gen 2:16-17, James 1:14-15 - Sin gives birth to death and always has
- I Cor 15:21-26, 2 Tim 1:8-11 - Sin will be destroyed last by Jesus Christ
5. On the chart fill in the name of Adam’s descendants from Seth to Lamech and the number of years he lived.
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DAY THREE
Questions and Answers
6. From studying the chart which of Adam’s descendants were alive during his lifetime?
All of them except Noah
7. From studying the chart which father outlived his son?
Methuselah
8. Analyze the language in Chapter 5. List the three men in this chapter who are involved in activities other than or in addition to:
“…he became the father of ….” or
“…had other sons and daughters….” or
“…and then he died.”
What is the specific additional information about each man that is provided to us?
Adam had a son in his own likeness in his own image
Genesis Chapter 5, verse 3
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Enoch walked with God
Genesis Chapter 5, verse 21-24
21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
Lamech had a son
Genesis Chapter 5, verses 28-31
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. 29 He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed." 30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. 31 Altogether, Lamech lived 777 years, and then he died.
Noah had three sons
Genesis Chapter 5, verse 32
32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
DAY FOUR
Questions and Answers
9. What does the name Noah mean and why did Lamech name him so?
The name means "rest" or "to comfort" Lamech thought he would bring comfort; how sadly wrong Lamech was, Noah brought comfort to God perhaps but not the world
Gen 5:29 29 He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed."
10. Were any of Adam’s descendants alive at the time of the flood which occurred when Noah was 600 years old?
The answer is not clear. Methuselah died the year of the flood which was 600 years after Noah was born and the same year that Methuselah died.
11. What reason does Hebrews 11:5 give us for God taking Enoch away? What does the Book of Jude verses 14 and 15 tell us about Enoch?
From the Book of Hebrews:
God took Enoch away so that he did not experience death…he was one who pleased God
Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 5:
5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
From the Book of Jude:
- He was a prophet
- He prophesied about Jesus Christ
Jude, verses 14 and 15
14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15 to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
DAY FIVE
Questions and Answers
12. In verse 22 and verse 24 the Bible states that Enoch
walked with God. Who is the other man in the Bible who the Bible says
walked with God?
His great grandson - Noah
Genesis Chapter 6, verse 9:
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.
13. Who else in the Bible besides Enoch did not taste death and was taken up by the Lord?
The great prophet Elijah
II Kings Chapter 2, verses 11-12:
11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a
chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of
them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. 12 Elisha saw this
and cried out, "My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of
Israel!" And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own
clothes and tore them apart.
14. Who was the only person that had died when Enoch was taken by God?
Adam