🌱WEB · Genesis 5:26
What does Genesis 5:26 mean?
"Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters."
— Genesis 5:26 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
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