Genesis 5:12

12 Also Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. (And Cainan lived seventy years, and then begat Mahalaleel.)

Genesis 5:12 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 5:12

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel.
] Here the Septuagint version adds an hundred years, as before.

Genesis 5:12 In-Context

10 after whose birth Enos lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

11 And all the days of Enos were made nine hundred and five years, and (then) he was dead.

12 Also Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. (And Cainan lived seventy years, and then begat Mahalaleel.)

13 And Cainan lived after that he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And all the days of Cainan were made nine hundred and ten years, and (then) he was dead.