Genesis 5:21

21 porro Enoch vixit sexaginta quinque annis et genuit Mathusalam

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 et vixit Iared postquam genuit Enoch octingentos annos et genuit filios et filias

20 et facti sunt omnes dies Iared nongenti sexaginta duo anni et mortuus est

21 porro Enoch vixit sexaginta quinque annis et genuit Mathusalam

22 et ambulavit Enoch cum Deo postquam genuit Mathusalam trecentis annis et genuit filios et filias

23 et facti sunt omnes dies Enoch trecenti sexaginta quinque anni