Genesis 5:25

25 When Methu'selah had lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 5:25 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:25

And Methuselah lived an hundred and eighty and seven
years, and beget Lamech.
] The Septuagint version is an hundred and sixty seven; the Samaritan only sixty seven; the same names were given to some of the posterity of Seth as were to those of Cain, as Lamech here, and Enoch before.

Genesis 5:25 In-Context

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

24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

25 When Methu'selah had lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech.

26 Methu'selah lived after the birth of Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had other sons and daughters.

27 Thus all the days of Methu'selah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.