Genesis 5:12 - Kenan lived seventy years and became the

Genesis - 5:12

12 Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

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And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Malaleel.

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel.

And Cainan liveth seventy years, and begetteth Mahalaleel.

And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:

And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.

Likewise, Cainan lived seventy years, and then he conceived Mahalalel.

Et vixit Kenan septuaginta annos, et genuit Mahalaleel.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. Here the Septuagint version adds an hundred years, as before.

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