Genesis 5:16 After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

English Standard Version
Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

New American Standard Bible
Then Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.

King James Bible
And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Mahalalel lived 830 years after the birth of Jared, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

International Standard Version
After he fathered Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years, fathering other sons and daughters.

American Standard Version
And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

Darby Bible Translation
And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

Young's Literal Translation
And Mahalaleel liveth after his begetting Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:6-20 Concerning each of these, except Enoch, it is said, and he died. It is well to observe the deaths of others. They all lived very long; not one of them died till he had seen almost eight hundred years, and some of them lived much longer; a great while for an immortal soul to be prisoned in a house of clay. The present life surely was not to them such a burden as it commonly is now, else they would have been weary of it. Nor was the future life so clearly revealed then, as it now under the gospel, else they would have been urgent to remove to it. All the patriarchs that lived before the flood, except Noah, were born before Adam died. From him they might receive a full account of the creation, the fall, the promise, and the Divine precepts about religious worship and a religious life. Thus God kept up in his church the knowledge of his will.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. all the days … Adam lived—The most striking feature in this catalogue is the longevity of Adam and his immediate descendants. Ten are enumerated (Ge 5:5-32) in direct succession whose lives far exceed the ordinary limits with which we are familiar—the shortest being three hundred sixty-five, [Ge 5:23] and the longest nine hundred sixty-nine years [Ge 5:27]. It is useless to inquire whether and what secondary causes may have contributed to this protracted longevity—vigorous constitutions, the nature of their diet, the temperature and salubrity of the climate; or, finally—as this list comprises only the true worshippers of God—whether their great age might be owing to the better government of their passions and the quiet, even tenor of their lives. Since we cannot obtain satisfactory evidence on these points, it is wise to resolve the fact into the sovereign will of God. We can, however, trace some of the important uses to which, in the early economy of Providence, it was subservient. It was the chief means of reserving a knowledge of God, of the great truths of religion, as well as the influence of genuine piety. So that, as their knowledge was obtained by tradition, they would be in a condition to preserve it in the greatest purity.