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Genesis 5:23

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5:23 The entire lifetime of Enoch was 365 years.

Genesis 2:13

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2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through 1  the entire land of Cush. 2 

Genesis 5:5

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5:5 The entire lifetime 3  of Adam was 930 years, and then he died. 4 

Genesis 5:8

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5:8 The entire lifetime of Seth was 912 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:11

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5:11 The entire lifetime of Enosh was 905 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:14

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5:14 The entire lifetime of Kenan was 910 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:17

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5:17 The entire lifetime of Mahalalel was 895 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:20

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5:20 The entire lifetime of Jared was 962 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:27

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5:27 The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:31

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5:31 The entire lifetime of Lamech was 777 years, and then he died.

Genesis 9:29

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9:29 The entire lifetime of Noah was 950 years, and then he died.

1 tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

2 sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.

3 tn Heb “all the days of Adam which he lived”

4 sn The genealogy traces the line from Adam to Noah and forms a bridge between the earlier accounts and the flood story. Its constant theme of the reign of death in the human race is broken once with the account of Enoch, but the genealogy ends with hope for the future through Noah. See further G. F. Hasel, “The Genealogies of Gen. 5 and 11 and their Alleged Babylonian Background,” AUSS 16 (1978): 361-74; idem, “Genesis 5 and 11,” Origins 7 (1980): 23-37.



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