Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Noah was five hundred years old: and . . . begat—That he and the other patriarchs were advanced in life before children were born to them is a difficulty accounted for probably from the circumstance that Moses does not here record their first-born sons, but only the succession from Adam through Seth to Abraham.
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