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.”