Discovery BoxGenesis 5:5-6 
Context5:5 The entire lifetime 1 of Adam was 930 years, and then he died. 2
5:6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father 3 of Enosh.
Genesis 5:8-9
Context5:8 The entire lifetime of Seth was 912 years, and then he died.
5:9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.
Genesis 5:11-12
Context5:11 The entire lifetime of Enosh was 905 years, and then he died.
5:12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.
Genesis 5:14-15
Context5:14 The entire lifetime of Kenan was 910 years, and then he died.
5:15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.
Genesis 5:17-18
Context5:17 The entire lifetime of Mahalalel was 895 years, and then he died.
5:18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5:20-21
Context5:20 The entire lifetime of Jared was 962 years, and then he died.
5:21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:25
Context5:25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 5:27
Context5:27 The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:31-32
Context5:31 The entire lifetime of Lamech was 777 years, and then he died.
5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he 4 became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 7:6
Context7:6 Noah 5 was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed 6 the earth.
Genesis 9:29
Context9:29 The entire lifetime of Noah was 950 years, and then he died.
Genesis 11:12
Context11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11:14
Context11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11:16
Context11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.
Genesis 11:18
Context11:18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.
Genesis 11:20
Context11:20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.
Genesis 11:22
Context11:22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.
Genesis 11:24
Context11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11:26
Context11:26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:32
Context11:32 The lifetime 7 of Terah was 205 years, and he 8 died in Haran.
Genesis 14:4
Context14:4 For twelve years 9 they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year 10 they rebelled. 11
Genesis 16:16
Context16:16 (Now 12 Abram was 86 years old 13 when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.) 14
Genesis 17:25
Context17:25 his son Ishmael was thirteen years old 15 when he was circumcised.
Genesis 18:11
Context18:11 Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; 16 Sarah had long since passed menopause.) 17
Genesis 21:5
Context21:5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) 18
Genesis 24:1
Context24:1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, 19 and the Lord had blessed him 20 in everything.
Genesis 41:29
Context41:29 Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:47
Context41:47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests. 21
Genesis 41:53
Context41:53 The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.
Genesis 50:22
Context50:22 Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. 22 Joseph lived 110 years.
1 tn Heb “all the days of Adam which he lived”
2 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.
3 tn Heb “he fathered.”
4 tn Heb “Noah.” The pronoun (“he”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “Now Noah was.” The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + predicate nominative after implied “to be” verb) provides background information. The age of Noah receives prominence.
6 tn Heb “and the flood was water upon.” The disjunctive clause (conjunction + subject + verb) is circumstantial/temporal in relation to the preceding clause. The verb הָיָה (hayah) here carries the nuance “to come” (BDB 225 s.v. הָיָה). In this context the phrase “come upon” means “to engulf.”
7 tn Heb “And the days of Terah were.”
8 tn Heb “Terah”; the pronoun has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.
9 tn The sentence simply begins with “twelve years”; it serves as an adverbial accusative giving the duration of their bondage.
10 tn This is another adverbial accusative of time.
11 sn The story serves as a foreshadowing of the plight of the kingdom of Israel later. Eastern powers came and forced the western kingdoms into submission. Each year, then, they would send tribute east – to keep them away. Here, in the thirteenth year, they refused to send the tribute (just as later Hezekiah rebelled against Assyria). And so in the fourteenth year the eastern powers came to put them down again. This account from Abram’s life taught future generations that God can give victory over such threats – that people did not have to live in servitude to tyrants from the east.
12 tn The disjunctive clause gives information that is parenthetical to the narrative.
13 tn Heb “the son of eighty-six years.”
14 tn The Hebrew text adds, “for Abram.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons; it is somewhat redundant given the three occurrences of Abram’s name in this and the previous verse.
15 tn Heb “the son of thirteen years.”
16 tn Heb “days.”
17 tn Heb “it had ceased to be for Sarah [after] a way like women.”
18 tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause underscores how miraculous this birth was. Abraham was 100 years old. The fact that the genealogies give the ages of the fathers when their first son is born shows that this was considered a major milestone in one’s life (G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 2:80).
19 tn Heb “days.”
20 tn Heb “Abraham.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.
21 tn Heb “brought forth by handfuls.”
22 tn Heb “he and the house of his father.”
