Genesis 5:30

And Lamech lives after his begetting Noah five hundred and ninety-five years [[ or five hundred and sixty-five years]], and begets sons and daughters.

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In The King James Version

And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

In Context

29and calls his name Noah, saying, “This [one] comforts us concerning our work, and concerning the labor of our hands, because of the ground which YHWH has cursed.”

31And all the days of Lamech are seven hundred and seventy-seven years [[ or seven hundred and fifty-three years]], and he dies.

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:29-32

Account of Noah. ( b. c. 2448.) 28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. 30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham,… Read the whole commentary →

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