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Genesis 5:27

Genesis 5:27 is verse 27 of Genesis chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

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King James Version

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

World English Bible

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

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Genesis 5:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.

26 And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

27 So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son.

29 And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

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