Genesis 5:25

25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 5:25 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:25

And Methuselah lived an hundred and eighty and seven
years, and beget Lamech.
] The Septuagint version is an hundred and sixty seven; the Samaritan only sixty seven; the same names were given to some of the posterity of Seth as were to those of Cain, as Lamech here, and Enoch before.

Genesis 5:25 In-Context

23 In all, Enoch lived 365 years.
24 Enoch walked with God and disappeared because God took him.
25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.
26 After Lamech's birth, Methuselah lived 782 years; and he had other sons and daughters.
27 In all, Methuselah lived 969 years, and he died.
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