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Genesis 5:21

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

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וַֽיְחִ֣יvaychiand liveחָיָהconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “and live”, the next action in the storyH2421to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revivekeep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ([idiom] God) save (alive, life, lives), [idiom] surely, be whole.חֲנ֔וֹךְchanokheEnochחֲנוֹךְnoun, proper name — “Enoch”H2585Chanok, an antediluvian patriachEnoch.חָמֵ֥שׁchameshfiveחָמֵשׁadjective, cardinal, feminine, singular, absolute — “five”, the ordinary formH2568fivefif(-teen), fifth, five ([idiom] apiece).וְשִׁשִּׁ֖יםveshishimand sixtyשִׁשִּׁיםconjunction, adjective, cardinal, both genders, plural, absolute — “and sixty”, the ordinary formH8346sixtysixty, three score.שָׁנָ֑הshanahyearשָׁנֶהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “year”, the ordinary formH8141a year (as a revolution of time)[phrase] whole age, [idiom] long, [phrase] old, year([idiom] -ly).וַיּ֖וֹלֶדvayoledand bearיָלַדconjunction, verb, hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “and bear”, the next action in the storyH3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineagebear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (wom…אֶתetobject markerאֵתparticle, direct object marker — “object marker”H853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)(as such unrepresented in English).מְתוּשָֽׁלַחmetushalachMethuselahמְתוּשֶׁלַחnoun, proper name — “Methuselah”H4968Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarchMethuselah.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah.

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American Standard Version (1901)

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

Young’s Literal Translation

And Enoch liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Methuselah.

World English Bible

Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.

Darby Translation

And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methushelah.

Douay-Rheims

And Henoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Mathusala.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And Enoch lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and begat Mathusala.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ ἔζησεν Ἐνὼχ πέντε καὶ ἑξήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ἔτη· καὶ ἐγέννησε τὸν Μαθουσάλα.