Genesis 4–5
Adam and His Descendants
The families of Adam and Eve: Cain's line, Seth's line and the ten generations from Adam to Noah.
Genesis follows two lines from Adam and Eve. Genesis 4 traces Cain's descendants to Lamech and his children, who began tent life with livestock, music and metalwork. Genesis 4:17–22
Genesis 5, "the book of the generations of Adam", traces Seth's line in ten generations to Noah. Each entry also notes that the father "became the father of other sons and daughters", so the list is not a complete family record. Genesis 5:1–32
Two names appear in both lines for different people: Enoch son of Cain and Enoch son of Jared, and Lamech son of Methushael and Lamech the father of Noah. They are kept apart here. Genesis 4:17–18Genesis 5:18–29
Family tree of Adam
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- Parent and child
- Marriage
- Ancestor (generations not all listed)
- Legal or adoptive parent
- Disputed or interpretive
Adam — The first man, formed by God from the dust and placed in the garden of Eden.
Spouses
Children
- Cain son Genesis 4:1
- Abel son Genesis 4:2Genesis 4:25
- Seth son Genesis 4:25Genesis 5:31 Chronicles 1:1Luke 3:38
- Other sons and daughters of Adam child Genesis 5:4
Grandchildren and later descendants
Descendants as recorded
From Adam to Noah (Genesis 5)
Each entry gives the age at the son's birth and the length of life; each man also "became the father of other sons and daughters". Genesis 5:1–32
- Adam Genesis 5:3
- Seth son of Adam Genesis 5:3
- Enosh son of Seth Genesis 5:6
- Kenan son of Enosh Genesis 5:9
- Mahalalel son of Kenan Genesis 5:12
- Jared son of Mahalalel Genesis 5:15
- Enoch son of Jared Genesis 5:18
- Methuselah son of Enoch Genesis 5:21
- Lamech son of Methuselah Genesis 5:25
- Noah son of Lamech Genesis 5:28–29
Key passages
Every relationship here comes from a cited passage. Solid lines are stated parent links; dashed lines mean generations are not all listed; dotted lines mark legal or adoptive parents; a question mark marks a disputed or interpretive link. Political succession and office are never drawn as family.