Genesis 5:17

17 And all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety and 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 And Maleleel lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and he begot Jared.

16 And Maleleel lived after his begetting Jared, seven hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

17 And all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died.

18 And Jared lived an hundred and sixty and two years, and begot Enoch:

19 and Jared lived after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.