GENESIS 5:21

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:”

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Genesis 5:21 Translation & Meaning

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And Enoch חֲנ֔וֹךְ Chanok, an antediluvian patriach Enoch
lived וַיְחִ֣י To live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive lived
sixty וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים Sixty sixty
and five חָמֵ֥שׁ Five five
years, שָׁנָ֑ה A year (as a revolution of time) years
and begat וַיּ֖וֹלֶד To bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage begat
Methuselah: מְתוּשָֽׁלַח׃ Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch Methuselah

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  • 19  And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • 20  And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

  • 21  And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

  • 22  And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • 23  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:




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