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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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  1. Genesis 5:29 The name Noah sounds similar to the Hebrew words for rest and comfort.

27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

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27 И всичките дни на Матусал бяха деветстотин шестдесет и девет години; тогава той умря.

28 Ламех живя сто осемдесет и две години и му се роди син, 29 и му даде име Ной, като каза: „Той ще ни утеши в работата ни и в труда на ръцете ни да получим блага от земята, която Господ прокле.“

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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](A) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.(B)

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  1. Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.