Genesis 5:25-32

25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.

26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.

29 He named him Noah^[a] and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”

30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

31 Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Genesis 5:25-32 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.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Chronicles 1:3; Luke 3:36
• 2. 1 Chronicles 1:3; Luke 3:36
• 3. S Genesis 3:17; Romans 8:20
• 4. Genesis 7:6,11; Genesis 8:13
• 5. Luke 3:36
• 6. Genesis 6:10; Genesis 9:18; Genesis 10:1; 1 Chronicles 1:4; Isaiah 65:20

Footnotes

• [a]. "Noah" sounds like the Hebrew for "comfort."