1. Prologue (5:1–3) 1–3 The prologue first redirects the reader’s attention back to the course of events in ch. 1, reiterating the “likeness” of God motif. Second, vv.1–3 tie ch. 5 together with 4:25–26 by continuing the pattern of “birth” and “naming.” There is a similarity between the picture of the first parents and their sons and that of God and Adam. God’s naming of Adam appears here for the first time in Genesis, casting God in the role of a father who names his son. This role of God as a father