Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.
Jacob replied, “I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors.”
After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
When Lamech was 182 years old, he became the father of a son.
He lived 950 years, and then he died.
He was very old—eighty years of age—and very wealthy. He was the one who had provided food for the king during his stay in Mahanaim.
Unlike the past, invaders will not take their houses and confiscate their vineyards. For my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will have time to enjoy their hard-won gains.
