Genesis 5:21 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Genesis 5:21

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19 After he begot Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters.

20 So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.

21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah.

22 After he begot Methuselah, Enoch ^awalked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.

23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

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Enoch . . . begat Methuselah—This name signifies, "He dieth, and the sending forth," so that Enoch gave it as prophetical of the flood. It is computed that Methuselah died in the year of that catastrophe.

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