Seven hundred years more, and other sons and daughters
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ἐγένοντο δὲ αἱ ἡμέραι Ἀδὰμ μετὰ τὸ γεννῆσαι αὐτὸν τὸν Σήθ ἑπτακόσια ἔτη, καὶ ἐγέννησεν υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας.
The formula’s second movement: the years remaining “after he begot” the son who carries the line, and a bare notice — no names given — of other sons and daughters. The genealogy is deliberately narrow: of Adam’s whole family, only the line running through Seth (not, notably, the elder Cain, whose own separate line was already given in ch.4) matters to this chapter’s purpose, which is to walk a single thread from Adam down to Noah.
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