Genesis 5:25

25 And Mathusala lived an hundred and sixty and seven years, and begot 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 and five years.

24 And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

25 And Mathusala lived an hundred and sixty and seven years, and begot Lamech.

26 And Mathusala lived after his begetting Lamech eight hundred and two years, and begot sons and daughters.

27 And all the days of Mathusala which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.

Footnotes

• [a]. Alex 187 years.