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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 5:25

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Methuselah lived an hundred and eighty and seven years, and beget Lamech.] The Septuagint version is an hundred and sixty seven; the Samaritan only sixty seven; the same names were given to some of the posterity of Seth as were to those of Cain, as Lamech here, and Enoch before.
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