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Genèse 5:26

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26 Et Méthushélah, après qu'il eut engendré Lémec, vécut sept cent quatre-vingt-deux ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

Genèse 5:26 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:26

And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred
eighty and two years
The Greek version is eight hundred and two years, and so makes the sum total of his life the same; but the Samaritan version only six hundred and fifty three, and so makes his whole life but seven hundred and twenty; and thus, instead of being the oldest, he is made the youngest of the antediluvian patriarchs, excepting his father Enoch: and begat sons and daughters;
some, it is highly probable, before he beget Lamech, since then he was near two hundred years of age, as well as others after

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Genèse 5:26 In-Context

24 Hénoc marcha donc avec Dieu, puis il disparut, car Dieu le prit.
25 Et Méthushélah vécut cent quatre-vingt-sept ans, et engendra Lémec.
26 Et Méthushélah, après qu'il eut engendré Lémec, vécut sept cent quatre-vingt-deux ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
27 Tout le temps que Méthushélah vécut, fut donc de neuf cent soixante-neuf ans; puis il mourut.
28 Et Lémec vécut cent quatre-vingt-deux ans, et engendra un fils.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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