Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.
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Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.
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And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
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And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared.
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- 1 Chronicles 1:2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years,…
Gen 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
Ver. 15. And begat Jared,] i.e., One that is going down, sc., to the dust of death: for, to live, is but to lie a-dying: every day we yield somewhat to death, and a man’s cradle stands in his grave.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all the days of Jared were nine hundred…
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years, and he died. The name of this patriarch signifies "descending"; and, according to the Arabic writers (q), he had his name from the posterity of Seth, descending from the holy mountain in his time; for upon a noise being heard on the mountain, about an hundred men went down to the sons of Cain, contrary to the prohibition and dehortation of Jared, and mixed themselves with the daughters of Cain, which brought on the apostasy: when Jared was near his end, he called to him Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, and their children, and said unto them, ye know what some have done, that they have gone down from the mountain, and have had conversation with the daughters of Cain, and have defiled themselves; take you care of your purity, and do not descend from the holy mountain; after which he blessed them, and having appointed Enoch his successor, he died the twelfth of Adar, answering to February, A. M. 1922: according to the Samaritan version, he lived only eight hundred and forty seven years: he died, according to Bishop Usher, A. M. 1422.
(q) Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 235.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. Jared] Heb. Yared = “a going down.” Cf.…
15. Jared] Heb. Yared = “a going down.” Cf. Jordan (Heb. Yardên) = “the going down, or descending, river” (?). The Book of jubilees, written in the latter part of the second century b.c., made use of this Hebrew etymology of the name, and connected it with the descending of angels upon the earth, when “the sons of God saw the daughters of men,” &c., Gen_6:2. To suppose that it denotes “descent,” in the sense of “deterioration,” is very far fetched.
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