Genesis 5:27-29
Evangelical Heritage Version
27 All the days of Methuselah were 969 years. Then he died.
28 Lamech lived 182 years and became the father of a son. 29 He named him Noah[a] and said, “This one will bring us comfort during our work and the hard labor that we must perform with our hands because the Lord has cursed the soil.”
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- Genesis 5:29 The name Noah sounds similar to the Hebrew words for rest and comfort.
Genesis 5:27-29
English Standard Version
27 Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son 29 and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground (A)that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief[a] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”
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- Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for rest
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