And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
And all the days of Seth are nine hundred and twelve years, and he dieth.
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
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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And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. As his father Adam before him.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The present life surely was not to them such a burden as commonly it is now, else they would have been weary of it; nor was the future life so clearly revealed then as it is now under the gospel, else they would have been impatient to remove to it: long life to the pious patriarchs was a blessing and made them blessings.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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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So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
