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27 So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years. Then he died.

28 When Lamech was 182, he had a son. 29 Lamech named his son Noah.[a] Lamech said, “Noah will comfort us from the pain of our work. The pain is because God has cursed the ground.”

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  1. 5:29 Noah This name sounds like the Hebrew word for “rest.”

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