And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
KJV
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4 additional translationsASV
and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
WEB
And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
YLT
And Methuselah liveth after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
DBT
And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — 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.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)