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Genesis 5:27-29
New International Version - UK
Genesis 5:27-29
New International Version - UK
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] and said, ‘He will comfort us in the labour and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.’
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- Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.
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