And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
And Noah liveth after the deluge three hundred and fifty years;
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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.
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But Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood, and all the days of his life were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. As we have taught above, the six hundred years of Noah's life, after which he entered the ark, …
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735patristic
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
