Genesis 5:4
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New International Version (©2011)
After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

New Living Translation (©2007)
After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Adam lived 800 years after the birth of Seth, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Adam lived another 800 years, fathering other sons and daughters after he had fathered Seth.

NET Bible (©2006)
The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
After Adam became the father of Seth, he lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

American King James Version
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

American Standard Version
and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters.

Darby Bible Translation
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

English Revised Version
and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

World English Bible
The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Young's Literal Translation
And the days of Adam after his begetting Seth are eight hundred years, and he begetteth sons and daughters.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:1-5 Adam was made in the image of God; but when fallen he begat a son in his own image, sinful and defiled, frail, wretched, and mortal, like himself. Not only a man like himself, consisting of body and soul, but a sinner like himself. This was the reverse of that Divine likeness in which Adam was made; having lost it, he could not convey it to his seed. Adam lived, in all, 930 years; and then died, according to the sentence passed upon him, To dust thou shalt return. Though he did not die in the day he ate forbidden fruit, yet in that very day he became mortal. Then he began to die; his whole life after was but a reprieve, a forfeited, condemned life; it was a wasting, dying life. Man's life is but dying by degrees.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years,.... The Septuagint version is seven hundred; for having added one hundred years more the should be, to the years of his life before the birth of Seth, here they are taken away to make the number of his years complete:

and he begat sons and daughters; not only after the birth of Seth, but before, though we have no account of any, unless of Cain's wife; but what their number was is not certain, either before or after; some say he had thirty children, besides Cain, Abel, and Seth; and others a hundred (c). Josephus says the number of children, according to the old tradition, was thirty three sons and twenty three daughters. (d)(These families had at least five children, for one son is named as well as other sons and daughters. Therefore there must be at least three sons and two daughters in each family. For a family to have at least three sons and two daughters, according to the laws of chance, a family must on the average have nine children for this to be a near certainty. Hence the families listed in this chapter must have been large by today's standards. Given their long life, this is not at all unusual. However even today, the Old Order Mennonites of Waterloo County in Ontario and Lancaster County in Pennsylvannia, have many families this large. Ed.)

(c) Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 74. 2.((d) Joseph. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 1. footnote on point 3.

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The Descendants of Adam
…3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: 4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. …

Genesis 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Genesis 5:5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.