Genesis 5:9-19

9 Forsooth Enos lived ninety years, and (then) begat Cainan;

10 after whose birth Enos lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

11 And all the days of Enos were made nine hundred and five years, and (then) he was dead.

12 Also Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. (And Cainan lived seventy years, and then begat Mahalaleel.)

13 And Cainan lived after that he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And all the days of Cainan were made nine hundred and ten years, and (then) he was dead.

15 Forsooth Mahalaleel lived sixty years and five, and begat Jared. (And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and then begat Jared.)

16 And Mahalaleel lived after that he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were made eight hundred [and] ninety and five years, and (then) he was dead.

18 And Jared lived an hundred and two and sixty years, and (then) begat Enoch.

19 And Jared lived after that he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:9-19 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.