Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Then after he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
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Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters.
and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Methushelah liued, after he begate Lamech, seuen hundreth eightie and two yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
And Mathusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Methuselah liveth after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And Methuselah lives after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begets sons and daughters.
After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
Then after he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
After Lamech was born, Methuselah lived another 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:
And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מְתוּשֶׁ֗לַח Methuselah H4968 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מְתוּשֶׁ֗לַח Methuselah H4968 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 15 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַֽיְחִ֣י מְתוּשֶׁ֗לַח אַֽחֲרֵי֙ הוֹלִיד֣וֹ אֶת לֶ֔מֶךְ שְׁתַּ֤יִם וּשְׁמוֹנִים֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וּשְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בָּנִ֖ים וּבָנֽוֹת
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ζάω μαθουσαλα μετά ὁ γεννάω αὐτός ὁ λαμεχ ὀκτακόσιοι δύο ἔτος καί γεννάω υἱός καί θυγάτηρ
And Mathusala lived after his begetting Lamech eight hundred and two years, and begot sons and daughters.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַחֲיָא מְתוּשֶׁלַח בָּתַר דְּאוֹלִיד יָת לֶמֶךְ שְׁבַע מְאָה וְתַמְנִין וְתַרְתֵּין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וַחֲיָא מְתוּשֶׁלַח בָּתַר דְאוֹלִיד יַת לֶמֶךְ שְׁבַע מְאָה וּתְמָנִין וְתַרְתֵּין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן
And Methushelach lived after he had begotten Lemek seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begat sons and daughters.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 15 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉthûwshelach (“Methuselah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 5:26 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.