Genesis 5:26

26 et vixit Mathusalam postquam genuit Lamech septingentos octoginta duos annos et genuit filios et filias

Genesis 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

Genesis 5:26 In-Context

24 ambulavitque cum Deo et non apparuit quia tulit eum Deus

25 vixit quoque Mathusalam centum octoginta septem annos et genuit Lamech

26 et vixit Mathusalam postquam genuit Lamech septingentos octoginta duos annos et genuit filios et filias

27 et facti sunt omnes dies Mathusalae nongenti sexaginta novem anni et mortuus est

28 vixit autem Lamech centum octoginta duobus annis et genuit filium