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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Genesis 5:21

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Genesis5:21

21. Enoch ... begat Methuselah--This name signifies, "He dieth, and the sending forth," so that Enoch gave it as prophetical of the flood. It is computed that Methuselah died in the year of that catastrophe.

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