Genesis 5:26
 Genesis 5:26 
New International Version (©2011)
After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

New Living Translation (©2007)
After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Methuselah lived 782 years after the birth of Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

NET Bible (©2006)
Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

American King James Version
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

American Standard Version
and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mathusala lived after he begot Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.

Darby Bible Translation
And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.

English Revised Version
and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

Webster's Bible Translation
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

World English Bible
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Young's Literal Translation
And Methuselah liveth after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:25-32 Methuselah signifies, 'he dies, there is a dart,' 'a sending forth,' namely, of the deluge, which came the year that Methuselah died. He lived 969 years, the longest that any man ever lived on earth; but the longest liver must die at last. Noah signifies rest; his parents gave him that name, with a prospect of his being a great blessing to his generation. Observe his father's complaint of the calamitous state of human life, by the entrance of sin, and the curse of sin. Our whole life is spent in labour, and our time filled up with continual toil. God having cursed the ground, it is as much as some can do, with the utmost care and pains, to get a hard livelihood out comfort us. It signifies not only that desire and expectation which parents generally have about their children, that they will be comforts to them and helpers, though they often prove otherwise; but it signifies also a prospect of something more. Is Christ ours? Is heaven ours? We need better comforters under our toil and sorrow, than the dearest relations and the most promising offspring; may we seek and find comforts in Christ.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred eighty and two years,.... The Greek version is eight hundred and two years, and so makes the sum total of his life the same; but the Samaritan version only six hundred and fifty three, and so makes his whole life but seven hundred and twenty; and thus, instead of being the oldest, he is made the youngest of the antediluvian patriarchs, excepting his father Enoch:

and begat sons and daughters; some, it is highly probable, before he beget Lamech, since then he was near two hundred years of age, as well as others after.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

26. Lamech—a different person from the one mentioned in the preceding chapter [Ge 4:18]. Like his namesake, however, he also spoke in numbers on occasion of the birth of Noah—that is, "rest" or "comfort" [Ge 5:29, Margin]. "The allusion is, undoubtedly, to the penal consequences of the fall in earthly toils and sufferings, and to the hope of a Deliverer, excited by the promise made to Eve. That this expectation was founded on a divine communication we infer from the importance attached to it and the confidence of its expression" [Peter Smith].


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From Methuselah to Noah
25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech. 26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. …

Genesis 5:25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 5:27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.