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Genesis 5:21 KJV
Genesis · chapter 5 · verse 21
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:Genesis 5:21 · King James Version
Genesis 5:21 in context
19And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
20And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- EnochChănôwkChanok, an antediluvian patriachH2585 →
- livedchâyâhto live, whether literally or figurativelyH2421 →
- sixtyshishshîymsixtyH8346 →
- yearsshâneha yearH8141 →
- begatyâladto bear youngH3205 →
- fivechâmêshfiveH2568 →
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The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be passed over so, of whom special notice must be taken, and that is Enoch, the seventh from Adam: the rest, we may suppose, did virtuously, but…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-24