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Genesis 5:24-32

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24 Enoch 1walked with God, and he was not,[a]2for God took him.
25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.
26 Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
27 Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son
29 and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground 3that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief[b] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."
30 Lamech lived after he fathered Noah 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
31 Thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.
32 After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered 4Shem, Ham, and 5Japheth.
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Genesis 5:24-32 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 5

This chapter contains a list or catalogue of the posterity of Adam in the line of Seth, down to Noah; it begins with a short account of the creation of Adam, and of his life and death, Ge 5:1-5 next of five of the antediluvian patriarchs, their age and death, namely Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Ge 5:6-20 then a particular relation of Enoch, his character and translation, Ge 5:21-24 then follows an account of Methuselah, the oldest man, and Lamech's oracle concerning his son Noah, Ge 5:12-29 and the chapter is closed with the life and death of Lamech, and the birth of the three sons of Noah, Ge 5:30-32.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 5

  • 1. [See ver. 22 above]
  • 2. Hebrews 11:5; [2 Kings 2:11]
  • 3. Genesis 3:17
  • 4. Genesis 6:10
  • 5. Genesis 10:21

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Septuagint was not found
  • [b]. Noah sounds like the Hebrew for rest
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