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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Genesis 5:1

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512, Sistine Chapel

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Genesis 5:1 (WEB)

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Catechism · 2

  • §2331Article 6 · The Sixth CommandmentRead at vatican.va

    “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created."” — Catechism footnote: Gen 5:1-2.

  • §2335Article 6 · The Sixth CommandmentRead at vatican.va

    “All human generations proceed from this union.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 4:1-2, 25-26; 5:1.

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Origen

  • “…be defended, he may read what we have written upon Genesis, from the beginning of the book up to the passage, “And this is the book of the generation of men,” where we have tried to show from the holy Scriptures themselves what the “heaven” was which was created in the beginning; and what the “earth,” and the…” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. v. 1.

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Augustine of Hippo

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