And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
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Interpretation
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.
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This thought runs through Genesis 5:28-32.