Genesis 5:8

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

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Interpretation

Concerning each of these, except Enoch, it is said, "and he died." It is well to Notice the deaths of others. They all lived very long; not one of them died till he had seen almost eight hundred years, and some of them lived much longer; a great while for an immortal soul to be prisoned in a house of clay.

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This thought runs through Genesis 5:6-8.

Genesis 5:6 Genesis 5:7 Genesis 5:8

Glossary

Seth Person: Appointed; a substitute, the third son of Adam and Eve ( Gen. 4:25 ; 5:3 ). His mother gave him this name, “for God,” said she, “hath appointed me [i. e., compensated me with] another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. ”.