Genesis - 5:17

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17 All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 5:17.

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And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.
And all the days of Mahalaleel are eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he dieth.
And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.
Fuerunt igitur omnes dies Mahalaleel, quinque anni et octingenti anni: et mortuus est.

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And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years, and he died. He also is spoken well of by the Arabic writers (p) as a good governor, a pious man that walked in the way of righteousness; and when he died blessed his children, and adjured them by the blood of Abel, not to suffer any of theirs to descend from the mountain to the sons of Cain: according to Bishop Usher he died A. M. 1290.
(p) Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 234.

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