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Genesis 5:22-29
Contemporary English Version
Genesis 5:22-29
Contemporary English Version
22 and during the next 300 years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God, 23-24 (A) and God took him away at the age of 365.
25 When Methuselah was 187, he had a son named Lamech. 26 Methuselah had more children 27 and died at the age of 969.
28 When Lamech was one 182, he had a son. 29 Lamech said, “I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort,[a] as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the Lord has put under a curse.”
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- 5.29 Noah … comfort: In Hebrew “Noah” sounds like “comfort.”
Genesis 5:22-29
New International Version
Genesis 5:22-29
New International Version
22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God(A) 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24 Enoch walked faithfully with God;(B) then he was no more, because God took him away.(C)
25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.(D) 26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. 27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. 29 He named him Noah[a](E) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.(F)”
Footnotes
- Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.
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