Genesis 5:5
New International Version
Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

New Living Translation
Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

English Standard Version
Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

Berean Standard Bible
So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

King James Bible
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

New King James Version
So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

New American Standard Bible
So all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

NASB 1995
So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

NASB 1977
So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Legacy Standard Bible
So all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

Amplified Bible
So Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years in all, and he died.

Christian Standard Bible
So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Adam’s life lasted 930 years; then he died.

American Standard Version
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Contemporary English Version
and died at the age of 930.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the time that Adam lived came to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

English Revised Version
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Adam lived a total of 930 years; then he died.

Good News Translation
and died at the age of 930.

International Standard Version
Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then died.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

Literal Standard Version
And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dies.

Majority Standard Bible
So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

New American Bible
The whole lifetime of Adam was nine hundred and thirty years; then he died.

NET Bible
The entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years; and he died.

New Heart English Bible
All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, then he died.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

World English Bible
All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dieth.

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Context
The Descendants of Adam
4And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died. 6When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.…

Cross References
Genesis 5:4
And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:6
When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.


Treasury of Scripture

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

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Genesis 5:8,11,14,17
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died…

Deuteronomy 30:20
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Psalm 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

and he died.

Genesis 5:8,11,14
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died…

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

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Genesis 5
1. Recapitulation of the creation of man.
3. The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah.
22. Enoch's godliness and translation into Heaven.
25. The family line of Methuselah to Noah and his sons














(5) The days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years.--The numbers in the Bible are involved in great difficulty, owing to the Hebrew method of numeration being to attach numerical values to letters, and add them together; and as the words thus formed are unmeaning, they easily become corrupted. Hence there is a great discrepancy in the numbers as specified by the three main authorities, the Hebrew text making the length of time from the expulsion from Paradise to the flood 1656 years, the Samaritan text only 1307, and the LXX. 2262, while in almost all cases they agree in the duration of the lives of the several patriarchs. There is, however, an appearance of untrustworthiness about the calculations in the LXX., while the Samaritan transcript must rank as of almost equal authority with the Hebrew text itself. St. Jerome, however, says that the best Samaritan MSS. in his days agreed with the Hebrew, but none such have come down to us.

Not only is there no doubt that the Bible represents human life as vastly prolonged before the flood, while afterwards it grew rapidly briefer, but it teaches us that in the Messianic age life is to be prolonged again, so that a century shall be the duration of childhood, and a grown man's ordinary age shall be as the age of a tree (Isa. Ixv. 20, 22). On the other hand, we may accept the assertion of physiologists that such as man is now, a period of from 120 to 150 years is the utmost possible duration of human life, and that no strength of constitution, nor temperance, nor vegetable diet could add many years to this limit. Hence many have supposed that in the early Biblical genealogies races or dynasties were meant, or that at a time when there were only engraved cylinders or marks scratched on stones or impressed on bricks as modes of writing, a few names only were selected, each one of whom, by the length of years assigned to him, represented an indefinitely protracted period. In proof that there was something artificial in these genealogies, they point to the fact that the toldoth of Adam are arranged in ten generations, and that the same number of generations composes the toldoth of Shem (Genesis 11:10-26).; while in our Lord's genealogy names are confessedly omitted in order to produce three series, each of fourteen names. It is also undeniable that in Hebrew genealogies it was the rule to omit names. Thus the genealogy of Moses contains only four individuals: Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses (1Chronicles 6:1-3); while for the same period there are eleven descents given in the genealogy of Jehoshuah (1Chronicles 7:23-27). All this is sufficient to convince every thoughtful person that we must not use these genealogies for chronological purposes. They were not drawn up with any such intention, but to trace the line of primogeniture, and show whose was the birthright. But the longevity of the antediluvian race does not depend upon these genealogies alone, but is part of the very substance of the narrative. It has too the evidence in its favour of all ancient tradition; but it is one of the mysteries of the Bible. We learn, however, from Genesis 6:3 that it did not prove a blessing, and we possibly are to understand that a change took place at the time of the flood in man's physical constitution, by which the duration of his fife was gradually limited to 120 years.

We ought to add that modern scholarship has proved the identity of the names of the numbers up to ten in the three great families of human speech. Above ten they have nothing in common. It seems, therefore, to follow that primaeval man before the confusion of tongues had no power of expressing large numbers. Hence in these lists the generations are limited to ten, and hence too the need of caution in dealing with the mystery which underlies the protracted duration of the lives of the patriarchs.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So Adam
אָדָם֙ (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 121: Adam -- the first man, also a city in the Jordan Valley

lived
וַיִּֽהְי֞וּ (way·yih·yū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a total of
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

930
תְּשַׁ֤ע (tə·ša‘)
Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8672: Nine, ninth

years,
שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

and then he died.
וַיָּמֹֽת׃ (way·yā·mōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill


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