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Genesis 5:21-27

Listen to Genesis 5:21-27
21 Und Henoch lebte fünfundsechzig Jahre und zeugte Methusalah.
22 Und Henoch wandelte mit Gott, nachdem er Methusalah gezeugt hatte, dreihundert Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.
23 Und alle Tage Henochs waren dreihundertfünfundsechzig Jahre.
24 Und Henoch wandelte mit Gott; und er war nicht mehr, denn Gott nahm ihn hinweg. -
25 Und Methusalah lebte hundertsiebenachtzig Jahre und zeugte Lamech.
26 Und Methusalah lebte, nachdem er Lamech gezeugt hatte, siebenhundertzweiundachtzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.
27 Und alle Tage Methusalahs waren neunhundertneunundsechzig Jahre, und er starb. -

Genesis 5:21-27 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.

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