Genèse 5:14

14 Tout le temps que Kénan vécut, fut donc de neuf cent dix ans; puis il mourut.

Genèse 5:14 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:14

And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten
years, and he died.
] The Arabic writers ^F15 also commend him as a good ruler of his people; and at his death he charged them not to desert the holy mountain, and join themselves with Cain's posterity; and having appointed Mahalaleel, who they say was his eldest son, his successor, he died on the fourth day of the week, and the thirteenth of the month Cheziran, A. M. 1535, and was buried in the double cave, and they mourned for him, according to custom, forty days: according to Bishop Usher it was in A. M. 1235.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Elmacinus, apud Hottinger, p. 233.

Genèse 5:14 In-Context

12 Et Kénan vécut soixante et dix ans, et engendra Mahalaleel.

13 Et Kénan, après qu'il eut engendré Mahalaleel, vécut huit cent quarante ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

14 Tout le temps que Kénan vécut, fut donc de neuf cent dix ans; puis il mourut.

15 Et Mahalaleel vécut soixante-cinq ans, et engendra Jéred.

16 Et Mahalaleel, après qu'il eut engendré Jéred, vécut huit cent trente ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.