Genesis 5:28

When Lamech had lived 182 years, he became the father of a son.

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And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

In Context

27Methuselah lived 969 years. Then he died.

29He called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the painful labor of our hands, which we must do because of the ground that Yahweh has cursed.”

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Cross References

Luke 3:36Shelah was the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

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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