Genesis 5:27

So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

28When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:29So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

2 Samuel 19:32Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

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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