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Genesis 5:3

וַ יְחִי אָדָם שְׁלֹשִׁים וּ מְאַת שָׁנָה וַ יֹּולֶד בִּ דְמוּתֹו כְּ צַלְמֹו וַ יִּקְרָא אֶת שְׁמֹו שֵׁת
And Red-one is living thirty and a hundred of a duplication, and is causing to bear in his copy, according to his shadow-image,207 and is calling-out his name Seth.
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causing to bear in his copy. The Scripture deliberately omits the word “a builder [son]” because the passage foreshadows something “causing to bear” many “Seths” (whose name means to set) just like his shadow-image (Jer. 3:19, Romans 8:29). Other sons and daughters (v.4) are not said to be in his image.