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27 In all, Methuselah lived 969 years, and he died.

28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he became the father of a son 29 and named him Noah, saying, “This one will give us relief[a] from our hard work, from the pain in our hands, because of the fertile land that the Lord cursed.”

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  1. Genesis 5:29 Heb resembles the sound of Noah’s name.

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