Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters
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Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters
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And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
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And Kenan lived after he begot Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel…
Gen 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Ver. 13. And begat sons and daughters.] Everything is generative of itself, says the philosopher. {a} And, that man is unworthy to be born, of whom another is not born, says the orator.
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{a} Propriissimum opus viventis est, generare sibi simile . - Arist.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred…
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years, and he died. He also is spoken well of by the Arabic writers (p) as a good governor, a pious man that walked in the way of righteousness; and when he died blessed his children, and adjured them by the blood of Abel, not to suffer any of theirs to descend from the mountain to the sons of Cain: according to Bishop Usher he died A. M. 1290.
(p) Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 234.
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