Genesis 5:17

17 Thus all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-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 When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared.

16 Mahalalel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.

17 Thus all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years; and he died.

18 When Jared had lived one hundred sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch.

19 Jared lived after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.