Génesis 5:4

4 Y fueron los días de Adán, después que engendró a Set, ochocientos años; y engendró hijos e hijas

Génesis 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:4

And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were
eight hundred years
The Septuagint version is seven hundred; for having added one hundred years more the should be, to the years of his life before the birth of Seth, here they are taken away to make the number of his years complete: and he begat sons and daughters;
not only after the birth of Seth, but before, though we have no account of any, unless of Cain's wife; but what their number was is not certain, either before or after; some say he had thirty children, besides Cain, Abel, and Seth; and others a hundred ^F3. Josephus says the number of children, according to the old tradition, was thirty three sons and twenty three daughters. ^F4 (These families had at least five children, for one son is named as well as other sons and daughters. Therefore there must be at least three sons and two daughters in each family. For a family to have at least three sons and two daughters, according to the laws of chance, a family must on the average have nine children for this to be a near certainty. Hence the families listed in this chapter must have been large by today's standards. Given their long life, this is not at all unusual. However even today, the Old Order Mennonites of Waterloo County in Ontario and Lancaster County in Pennsylvannia, have many families this large. Ed.)

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 74. 2.
F4 Joseph. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 1. footnote on point 3.

Génesis 5:4 In-Context

2 macho y hembra los creó; y los bendijo, y llamó el nombre de ellos Hombre, el día en que fueron creados

3 Y vivió Adán ciento treinta años, y engendró un hijo a su semejanza, conforme a su imagen, y llamó su nombre Set

4 Y fueron los días de Adán, después que engendró a Set, ochocientos años; y engendró hijos e hijas

5 Y fueron todos los días que vivió Adán novecientos treinta años; y murió

6 Y vivió Set ciento cinco años, y engendró a Enós