Genesis 5:6-26

Listen to Genesis 5:6-26
6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and (then) begat Enos.
7 And Seth lived after that he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
8 And all the days of Seth were made nine hundred and twelve years, and (then) he was dead.
9 Forsooth Enos lived ninety years, and (then) begat Cainan;
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.
15 Forsooth Mahalaleel lived sixty years and five, and begat Jared. (And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and then begat Jared.)
16 And Mahalaleel lived after that he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were made eight hundred [and] ninety and five years, and (then) he was dead.
18 And Jared lived an hundred and two and sixty years, and (then) begat Enoch.
19 And Jared lived after that he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 And all the days of Jared were made nine hundred and two and sixty years, and (then) he was dead.
21 Forsooth Enoch lived five and sixty years, and (then) begat Methuselah.
22 And Enoch went with God (And Enoch walked with God); and Enoch lived after that he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and five and sixty years.
24 And Enoch went with God (And Enoch walked with God), and appeared not afterward, for God took him away.
25 Also Methuselah lived an hundred and seven and eighty years, and begat Lamech. (And Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and then begat Lamech.)
26 And Methuselah lived after that he begat Lamech seven hundred and two and eighty years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:6-26 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 5

This chapter contains a list or catalogue of the posterity of Adam in the line of Seth, down to Noah; it begins with a short account of the creation of Adam, and of his life and death, Ge 5:1-5 next of five of the antediluvian patriarchs, their age and death, namely Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Ge 5:6-20 then a particular relation of Enoch, his character and translation, Ge 5:21-24 then follows an account of Methuselah, the oldest man, and Lamech's oracle concerning his son Noah, Ge 5:12-29 and the chapter is closed with the life and death of Lamech, and the birth of the three sons of Noah, Ge 5:30-32.

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