Genesis 5:32

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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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.

Genesis 5:28 Genesis 5:29 Genesis 5:30 Genesis 5:31 Genesis 5:32

Glossary

Noah Person: Rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah ( Gen. 5:25-29 ), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam’s death.
Shem Person: A name; renown, the first mentioned of the sons of Noah ( Gen. 5:32 ; 6:10 ). He was probably the eldest of Noah’s sons. The words “brother of Japheth the elder” in Gen.