Genesis 5:21
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When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.
Read Genesis 5:21 Using Other Translations
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
What does Genesis 5:21 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Genesis 5:21
FOOTNOTES:
F18 Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 17. p. 419.
F19 Thaleg. l. 2. c. 13. col. 88. so Ainsworth.
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,
F18 Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 17. p. 419.
F19 Thaleg. l. 2. c. 13. col. 88. so Ainsworth.
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