Genesis 5:25

When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

In Context

24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

26And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:18Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:22-25

Translation of Enoch. ( b. c. 3017.) 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be… Read the whole commentary →

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