What the Genealogies in Genesis 5 and Moses 6 Are Really Doing
He lived nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
He lived nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
He lived nine hundred and five years, and he died.
Most readers of Genesis 5 feel the same thing at this point: the urge to skip ahead. The names are unfamiliar, the lifespans implausible, and the repetitive structure seems to offer nothing a devoted scripture reader actually needs. The chapter gets skimmed, the names blur together, and the reader arrives at Noah without having noticed what just happened.
What just happened is one of the most theologically loaded passages in the Old Testament.
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