Gen 5:3–5: "in his likeness, as his image"

Says Adam וַיּוֹלֶד בִּדְמוּתוֹ כְּצַלְמוֹ, "fathered in his likeness, as his image": the two nouns of 1:26, אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ, with the prepositions exchanged (xref.Gen.1.27.Gen.5.1-Gen.5.3.heb; note.language.Gen.1.26-Gen.1.27.tselem-demut). BDB glosses them "likeness, similitude" and "image, likeness, of resemblance." The verb has no object noun; the BSB's "he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image" supplies "a son." Here Adam names him שֵׁת; in 4:25 Eve names him (xref.Gen.4.25.Gen.5.3.heb). Swete has κατὰ τὴν εἰδέαν αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὴν εἰκόνα αὐτοῦ. Then וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת, "and he fathered sons and daughters," and 5:5 closes with וַיָּמֹת, "and he died," the first of eight in the chapter (xref.Rom.5.14.Gen.5.5.heb). Rom 5:14: "death reigned from Adam until Moses."

Uncertain What the likeness passed to Seth is. (1) The image of God of 5:1, carried on in Adam's line; ground: 5:1 and 5:3 set the same nouns side by side. Objection: 5:3 says "his" likeness, not God's. (2) Adam's own likeness after Gen 3, so that the line shares his state as well as his nature; ground: "his," after the sentence of death in 3:19. Objection: the verse does not mention the fall. (3) The ordinary likeness of son to father; ground: the plain sense of begetting. Objection: the choice of the nouns of 1:26. The views can be combined, and no lean is taken here.