Genesis 5:25

25 When Methuselah had lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he fathered 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 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more, for God took him.

25 When Methuselah had lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he fathered Lamech.

26 And after Methuselah had fathered Lamech, he lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and fathered sons and daughters.

27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "On the day"