And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
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Methuselah signifies, he dies, there is a dart,' a sending forth,' namely, of the deluge, which came the year that Methuselah died. He lived 969 years, the longest that any man ever lived on earth; but the longest liver must die at last.