29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
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And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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 all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-29)Here see, 1. How God prolonged the life of Noah; he lived 950 years, twenty more than Adam and but nineteen less than Methuselah: this long life was a further reward of his signal piety, and a great blessing to the world, to which no doubt he continued a preacher of righteousness , with this advantage, that now all he preached to were his own children. 2. How God put a period to his life at last.…
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