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Genesis 5:25

Genesis 5:25
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And Noah was five hundred years old,.... Or "the son of five hundred years" (f); he was in his five hundredth year: it can hardly be thought that he should live to this time a single life, and have no…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 5:25-27

Concerning Methuselah observe, 1. The signification of his name, which some think was prophetical, his father Enoch being a prophet. Methuselah signifies, he dies, or there is a dart, or, a sending…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Methuselah According to the Hebrew text and the Samaritan version, Methuselah lived the longest of all the patriarchs, and, according to their figures, his death at the age of 969 years occurred in…

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