Genesis - 5:14



14 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 5:14.

Differing Translations

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And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
And all the days of Cainan are nine hundred and ten years, and he dieth.
And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.
And all the days of Cainan that passed were nine hundred and ten years, and then he died.
Fuerunt itaque omnes dies Kenan, decem anni et nongenti anni: et mortuus est.

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Historical Commentaries

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And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. The Arabic writers (o) also commend him as a good ruler of his people; and at his death he charged them not to desert the holy mountain, and join themselves with Cain's posterity; and having appointed Mahalaleel, who they say was his eldest son, his successor, he died on the fourth day of the week, and the thirteenth of the month Cheziran, A. M. 1535, and was buried in the double cave, and they mourned for him, according to custom, forty days: according to Bishop Usher it was in A. M. 1235.
(o) Elmacinus, apud Hottinger, p. 233.

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