Man living at the time before the Flood
Methuselah
Enoch’s son, who lived 969 years, the longest life recorded in Scripture (Genesis 5:27). He was 187 when his son Lamech was born (Genesis 5:25). Adding the figures in Genesis 5 and Genesis 7:6, he died in the very year of the flood, the year Noah turned 600. Scripture does not say whether he died before the flood or in it. His name is in the genealogy of Jesus (Luke 3:37).
Longest life recorded in Scripture. Overlapped Adam by 243 years and Shem by 98 years, so a single life links Adam to the generation that survived the Flood. Died in the Flood year.
Family
- Father
- Enoch
- Children
- Lamech the father of Noah
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