And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
And Lamech liveth an hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth a son,
And Lemech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.
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.
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Enoch begot Methuselah, and Methuselah begot Lamech, and Lamech begot Noah (whose name means "relief" in Hebrew and Syriac). Lamech prophesied about his son and said, "This one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands and from the …
Ephrem the Syrian· COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 5.2.2, 373patristic
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat son. According to the Septuagint version he was an hundred and eighty eight years old; but according to the Samaritan version only fifty three; the name, of his son, begotten by him, is given in the next verse, with the reason of it.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
He was changed, as those saints shall be that will be found alive at Christ's second coming. Methuselah signifies, He dies, there is a sending forth, viz. of the deluge, which came the very year that Methuselah died. If his name was so intended, it was a fair warning to a careless world long before the judgment came.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
