Genesis 5:18–20
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
When we come to a passage like the genealogies in Genesis 5, the modern mind, which is a very flighty and unserious thing, tends to skim. We see a list of names and numbers, and our eyes glaze over. We think it is just a dry, dusty record of ancient men who lived an impossibly long time. This is the inspired Word of God, and it is freighted with a theology that undergirds everything else in the Bible. Chapter 5 is the genealogy of the line of Seth, the promised line. It stands in stark contrast to the line of Cain in chapter 4, which is a line of worldly accomplishment, arrogance, and violence. The line of Cain builds cities, invents instruments, and boasts in its murderous vengeance. The line of Seth, on the other hand, is marked by a different refrain.