Genesis 5:17

17 Thus all the days of Ma-hal'alel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.

Genesis 5:17 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:17

And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety
and five years, and he died.
] He also is spoken well of by the Arabic writers ^F16 as a good governor, a pious man that walked in the way of righteousness; and when he died blessed his children, and adjured them by the blood of Abel, not to suffer any of theirs to descend from the mountain to the sons of Cain: according to Bishop Usher he died A. M. 1290.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 234.

Genesis 5:17 In-Context

15 When Ma-hal'alel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared.

16 Ma-hal'alel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.

17 Thus all the days of Ma-hal'alel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.

18 When Jared had lived a hundred and sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch.

19 Jared lived after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.