Genesis 5:21

21 And Enoch lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and begat Mathusala.

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

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

21 And Enoch lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and begat Mathusala.

22 And Enoch was well-pleasing to God after his begetting Mathusala, two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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