And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
And Mahalaleel liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Jared.
And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches1
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
The walk3
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Chronicles 1:2Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
leads to
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.
When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
