Genesis 5:21

21 When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Methuselah.

Genesis 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.

Genesis 5:21 In-Context

19 And after Jared had fathered Enoch, he lived eight hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

21 When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Methuselah.

22 And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "On the day"