Genesis - 5:20



20 All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 5:20.

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And all the days of Jared are nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he dieth.
And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end.
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died. .
Fuerunt ergo omnes dies Jered duo et sexaginta anni et nongenti anni: et mortuus est.

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And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years, and he died. The name of this patriarch signifies "descending"; and, according to the Arabic writers (q), he had his name from the posterity of Seth, descending from the holy mountain in his time; for upon a noise being heard on the mountain, about an hundred men went down to the sons of Cain, contrary to the prohibition and dehortation of Jared, and mixed themselves with the daughters of Cain, which brought on the apostasy: when Jared was near his end, he called to him Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, and their children, and said unto them, ye know what some have done, that they have gone down from the mountain, and have had conversation with the daughters of Cain, and have defiled themselves; take you care of your purity, and do not descend from the holy mountain; after which he blessed them, and having appointed Enoch his successor, he died the twelfth of Adar, answering to February, A. M. 1922: according to the Samaritan version, he lived only eight hundred and forty seven years: he died, according to Bishop Usher, A. M. 1422.
(q) Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 235.

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