Chuàngshìjì 5:21

21 Yǐnuò huó dào liù shí wǔ suì , shēng le Mǎtǔsǎlā .

Chuàngshìjì 5:21 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:21

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah.
] Here the Septuagint version adds again an hundred years; and that Enoch had a son, whose name was Methuselah, is affirmed by Eupolemus ^F18, an Heathen writer; and Enoch being a prophet gave him this name under a spirit of prophecy, foretelling by it when the flood should be; for his name, according to Bochart ^F19, signifies, "when he dies there shall be an emission", or sending forth of waters upon the earth, to destroy it,

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 17. p. 419.
F19 Thaleg. l. 2. c. 13. col. 88. so Ainsworth.

Chuàngshìjì 5:21 In-Context

19 Yǎliè shēng Yǐnuò zhī hòu , yòu huó le bá bǎi nián , bìngqiĕ shēng ér yǎng nǚ .

20 Yǎliè gòng huó le jiǔ bǎi liù shí èr suì jiù sǐ le .

21 Yǐnuò huó dào liù shí wǔ suì , shēng le Mǎtǔsǎlā .

22 Yǐnuò shēng Mǎtǔsǎlā zhī hòu , yǔ shén tóngxíng sān bǎi nián , bìngqiĕ shēng ér yǎng nǚ .

23 Yǐnuò gōng huó le sān bǎi liù shí wǔ suì .