Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying: “He will bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands which comes from the ground the Lord cursed.”
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In Context
28Lamech lived for a hundred eighty and two years, and had a son.
30Lamech lived for five hundred ninety and five years after he had Noah, and had sons and daughters.
Cross References
Genesis 4:11Even now you are cursed by the very ground that has opened to receive your brother’s blood shed by your hand.
Genesis 7:23The Lord destroyed everything that existed upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle, and creeping things, and the birds of the heavens, and Noah only was left and they who were with him in the ark.
Luke 3:36Kenan, Arpachshad, Shem, Noah, Lamech,
Hebrews 11:7It was faith that enabled Noah, after he had received the divine warning about what could not then be foreseen, to build, in reverent obedience, an ark in which to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world, and became possessed of that righteousness which follows on faith.
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 →