Genesis 5:27

And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he dies.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

In Context

26And Methuselah lives after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begets sons and daughters.

28And Lamech lives one hundred and eighty-two years [[ or one hundred and eighty-eight years]], and begets a son,

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Cross References

Genesis 9:29and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dies.

2 Samuel 19:32and Barzillai [is] very aged, a son of eighty years, and he has sustained the king in his abiding in Mahanaim, for he [is] a very great man;

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:26-28

25 And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: 26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. Concerning Methuselah observe, 1. The signification of his name, which some think was prophetical, his father Enoch being a prophet. Methuselah signifies, he dies, or there is a dart, or, a sending forth, namely, of the deluge, which came the… Read the whole commentary →

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