19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. 24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was not: for God took him. 25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech. 26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters. 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. 28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son. * 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work, and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. 30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters. 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shent, Ham, and Japheth. § CHAP. VI.. 1 The wickedness of the world causeth the flood. 8 Noah findeth grace. 14 The order, form, and end of the ark. AND it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown. 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagina ascribed to their abstemious manner of life, in the natural way; it may be proper to enquire, why none of the others did not obtain the secret art of longevity. He attempts also to give another solution, and to which the learned Abarbanel replies, and endeavours to defend Maimonides;, but the consideration of the whole, would lead me far beyond the limits alotted in these notes. • In the Hebrew it is בן a son and as this expression is not used by any of the others, it ought to be enquired why this distinction? to which I think it may be answered, that בן is derived from בנה to build: And therefore Jarchi observes that from בן this son, which was Noah, the postdeluvian world was built: i. e. they all sprang from this very son. There are two questions arising from this verse, which cannot be satisfactorily answered, namely, First, Whether Noah had already these three sons when he was 500 years old, or if then the first of them was born?-2dly, Whether they were born in the order that Scripture names them? or whether a preference is not given to Shem because of the honour he had that Abraham sprang from him. 460. Jared, Mahalaleel-65 Note. The expression, AND HE DIED, concludes the narrative of every person mentiorled in thi chapter, except that of Enoch, who seems to have followed the path of virtue: and no mention is made of his death, but only that he was no more, for God had taken him. : : ס שְׁתַּיִם 21 וַיְחִי חֲנוֹךְ:19 וַיְחִי יֶרֶד אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־חֲנוֹךְ שְׁמֹנֶה מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶךְ בָּנִים וּבָנָוֹת : 20 וַיִּהְיוּ כָּל־יְמֵ ל־יְמֵי־יֶרֶד וְשִׁשִׁים שָׁנָה וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיִּמְת : חֲנוֹךְ חָמֵשׁ וְשִׁשִׁים שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד אֶת־־מְתוּשָׁלַח : 22 וַיִּתְהַלֵךְ חֲנוֹךְ אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־ מְתוּשֶׁלַח שְׁלְשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנָוֹת : 23 וַיְהִי כָּל־יְמֵי חֲנִוֹךְ חָמֵשׁ וְשִׁשִׁים שָׁנָה וּשְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה : 24 וַיִּתְהַלֵךְ חֲנִוֹךְ אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים וְאֵינֶנּוּ כִּי־לָקַח אֹתוֹ שביעי אֱלֹהִים : ס 25 וַיְחִי מְתוּשֶׁלַח שֶׁבַע וּשְׁמֹנִים שָׁנָה וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד אֶת־לֶמֶךְ: 26 וַיְחִי מְתוּשָׁלַח אַחֲרִי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־־לֶמֶךְ שְׁתַּיִם וּשְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וּשְׁבַע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנָוֹת: 27 וַיִּהְיוּ כָּל־יְמֵי מְתוּשֶׁלַח תֵּשַׁע וְשִׁשִׁים שָׁנָה וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיָּמֹת : שָׁנָה וַיָּמְת: ס 28 וַיְחִי־ לֶמֶךְ שְׁתַּיִם וּשְׁמֹנִים שָׁנָה וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בֵּן : וַיִּקְרָא אֶת־־שְׁמֶוֹ נֹחַ לֵאמֹר זֶה יְנַחֲמֵנוּ מִמַּעֲשֵׂנוּ וּמֵעַצְבוֹן יָדֵינוּ מִן־הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר אֵרַרָהּ יְהוָה : 30 וַיְחִי־ לֶמֶךְ אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־נֹחַ אֶת־נֹחַ חָמֵשׁ וְתִשְׁעִים שָׁנָה וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאֶת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנָוֹת : 31 וַיְהִי כָּל־יְמֵי־לֶמֶךְ שֶׁבַע וְשִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וּשְׁבַע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיָּמֹת: ס 32 וַיְהִי־ נֹחַ בֶּן־חֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד נֹחַ אֶת־שָׁם אֶת־ ו חָם וְאֶת־יָפֶת : וַיְהִי כִּי־הֵחֵל הָאָדָם לָרֹב עַל־־פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה וּבָנוֹת יְלְדוּ לָהֶם: 2 וַיִּרְאָוּ 2 וַיַּרְאוּ בְנֵי־הָאֱלֹהִים ים אֶת־ בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם כִּי טְבָת הַנָּה וַיִּקְחוּ לָהֶם נָשִׁים מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר בְּחָרוּ: 3 וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה לֹא־יָדוֹן רוּחִי בָאָדָם לְעלָם בְּשַׁגָּב הוּא בָשָׂר וְהָיו יָמָיו מֵאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה: 4 הַנְפִלִים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם וְגַם אַחֲרִי־כֵן אֲשֶׁר יָבֹאוּ בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים אֶל־בְּנָוֹת הָא הָאָדָם וְיַלְדוּ לָהֶם הֶם הֵמָּה הַגִּבֹּרֶיךָ 29 אֲשֶׁר מֵעוֹלָם אַנְשֵׁי הַשֵׁם : IT: ዕ። פ : מפטיר 5 וַיַּרְא יְהוָה כִּי רַבָּה רָעַת הָאָדָם בָּאֶרֶץ וְכָל־יַצֵוּ 1 The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs, from Adam unto Noah. 24 The godliness & translation of Enoch. THIS is the book of the generations of Adam, in the day that God created man; in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son, in his own likeness after his image; and called his name Seth. 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters. 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. § 11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. 12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel. 13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. 15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared. 16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. 18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch. and, no doubt but that his wife was with him; for Scripture makes no particular mention of the birth of women, any farther than saying, in general, that such a one begat sons and daughters; and the Jewish Rabbins assert, from tradition, that Eve always bore twins, a son and a daughter, who were intended to be man and wife. Then Scripture proceeds to enumerate the seven generations, from Cain to Lamech's children, when the vengeance for Cain's murder was to take place, which was fulfilled by the general deluge. * In his days men began first to offer up their prayers and supplications to God, as Abarbanel and Aben Ezra observe. The longevity of the Antediluvians hath long employed the thoughts of mankind, to account for them in a natural way; for which reason, I shall just hint what that great luminary Maimonides says in Moereh Nevucheem, part 2. chap. 47. "The length of years which these, i. e, the Antediluvians, are said to have enjoyed, was only to those particular persons mentioned by Moses; but, as to the rest of mankind, their years I am of opinion, were only such as are natural to us at present. That, as to the length of years of those particular persons, it may be ascribed to their abstemious way of life in the natural way, or as a supernatural gift." And although Nachmanides has attempted to invalidate the force of what Maimonides has advanced, by objecting that he cannot perceive, why they should in particular live to this age; as they were not prophets, or particularly righteous men, so that they should have such gift in a supernatural manner; and if it is to be |