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Personal data Methuselah / מתושלח / متوشلخ "Matwasyalah" 

• Nickname is Matwasyalah.
• He was born about -3317 TO ABT 100 in City of Enoch.
• He died about -2399 TO ABT 100 in Shulon, East Eden.
• A child of Enoch / חנוך / إدريس and Edna
• This information was last updated on September 13, 2011.

Household of Methuselah / מתושלח / متوشلخ "Matwasyalah"

He has/had a relationship with Edna.

Child(ren):

1. Eliakim  ± 3132- 
2. Lamech / למך / لمك  ± 100-± 100 
3. Rake’el  ± 3134-±  

Notes about Methuselah / מתושלח / متوشلخ "Matwasyalah"

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Methuselah
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Methuselah or Metushélach (Hebrew ??????????? / ??????????? "Man of the dart", or alternatively "when he dies, it shall be sent" Standard Hebrew M?tušéla? / M?tušála?, Tiberian Hebrew M??ûšéla? / M??ûšala?) was the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He reportedly reached the age of 969 years. According to the Book of Genesis 5:27: "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died" (American Standard Version). The name Methuselah has become a general synonym for any living creature of great age.
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* 1 Methuselah in Genesis
* 2 Methuselah in the Book of Enoch
* 3 Lifespan
* 4 Modern cultural references
* 5 See also
* 6 External links

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Methuselah in Genesis

He is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech (father of Noah), whom he fathered at the age of 187. A close reading of the dates in the Old Testament reveals that Methuselah is said to have died in the year of the Great Flood, but the Bible does not indicate if the cause of his death was by drowning. Some have interpreted his name as a prophecy: when he dies, the Flood will come. In that case, the long life has an allegorical dimension, showing that God withheld judgment on mankind for a very long time.
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Methuselah in the Book of Enoch

Methuselah is mentioned in the Book of Enoch as being the son of Enoch and as having brothers. The writer tells Methuselah of the coming Deluge and of a future Messianic kingdom. [1]
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Lifespan

Modern science puts the natural limit on current human longevity well below 150 years. Guinness Records for the oldest living person have long remained within the range from age 112 to the all-time record of 122 years held by Jeanne Calment, but the process of sorting genuine supercentenarians from longevity myths is hampered by the often questionable birth certification records from the late 19th century. Guinness Record ages are not likely to eclipse Methuselah's age any time soon. Further, Biblical literalism may miss the meaning of the story—some interpret Methuselah's age as allegorical.

Many theories have been put forward to explain why the ages of Biblical patriarchs so far exceed the modern human lifespan. Some maintain that the unusually long lives of these patriarchs are the result of translation errors, perhaps translation errors in ancient times.

There are three serious problems with the Genesis 5 numbers: humans do not live to be 900 years, men do not father children when they are over a century old, and why did they wait so long to have children? All three of these problems disappear if we make two simple assumptions: the Septuagint (an ancient Greek translation of an early Hebrew text) has the original numbers and each of the numbers has one decimal place in modern notation. However, the original Genesis numbers were not written in decimal notation. Instead the numbers were recorded in an archaic, pre-cuneiform, Sumerian number system called SHE-GUR-MAH in sign-value notation, similar in some ways to Roman numerals. About 1700 BCE, a Babylonian scribe mistranslated these archaic numbers into cuneiform in the classical Sumerian sexagesimal number system. These were retranslated into Hebrew about 500 BCE and became Genesis 5. Except for Noah, each young man in Genesis 5 fathered his first son during his late teens or early twenties, just as young men do today, and they lived into their seventies or early eighties. Methuselah lived to be 85 after fathering his son Lamech at the age of 17. This is argued in detail in chapter 7 of the book Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic.

Another theory suggests lunar cycles were mistaken for the solar ones, making their actual lives 12.37 times shorter. This gives 78 years for Methuselah—still an impressive number, bearing in mind the life expectancy of Biblical times. Methuselah's fathering of Lamech would correspondingly have occurred at solar age 15 (187÷12.37). This theory, however, seems doubtful to others since patriarchs such as Mahalalel (ibid 5:15) and Enoch (ibid 5:21) were said to have become fathers after 65 "years." If the lunar cycle theory were accepted, this would translate to an age of about 5 years and 2 months.

Creationists have speculated on reasons for the dramatic decrease in lifespans following the Great Flood of Noah's time. One reason claimed is that conditions before the flood caused much less ultraviolet light from the sun to impact the earth, and that this allowed for longer life spans. The Institute for Creation Research has posited that a vapor canopy surrounded the earth before the Flood, and that it was the source of the floodwaters. Such a canopy would also have protected mankind from the aging effects of the sun's ultraviolet rays. After the dissipation of the canopy during the Flood, according to this theory, lifespans dropped rapidly to what they are today. In the opinion of mainstream scientists, proof of this canopy and its putative effects on human lifespan is lacking. Frank Steiger has a 1996 analysis of the "vapor canopy" theory.

Young Earth creationist Carl Wieland alternatively speculated that the decline in lifespan is the drastic reduction in population due to the Flood, causing a genetic bottleneck in which the genes that coded for longevity were lost. [2]

For some Bible believers, the cause of the decrease in human longevity is that God sets a specific lifespan for human beings, as per the passage of Genesis 6:3: "Then the Lord said, 'My Spirit will not contend with [or "remain in"] man forever, for he is mortal [or "corrupt" (NIV)] ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.'" In addition, a cosmology of "sin"—that man was once potentially immortal, but became mortal through four "falls" and thus had his life shortened in four successive stages (from potentially everlasting in the Garden of Eden to less than 1,000 years afterward; then to less than 500 after the Flood; then to 250; then to 120) and that equated early death with sin (and thus long life with respect) all mean that early Biblical ages have allegorical, not merely literal, meaning. But most commentators regard this as the time that mankind as a whole had left before the Flood came, because individual lifespans as given in the Bible were much longer for some time.
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Modern cultural references

The name Methusalah has entered popular parlance as a synonym for any living thing that has attained unusually great age. In addition, there is a host of references to the name in film, television, and literature. Some of those references are listed below.

Barbara Kingsolver's 1998 postcolonial epic novel The Poisonwood Bible, set in the Congo and spanning 30 years from 1959, contains a parrot called Methuselah who, when he is freed from his cage after a lifetime of captivity, finds he is unable to fly. His death coincides with the collapse of the country's Belgian colonial regime.

Robert A. Heinlein wrote a science fiction series about rejuvenation and a project called the "Howard Families" that was working to extend the human lifespan beyond 150 years. The first volume was called Methuselah's Children and the series continued in Time Enough for Love and later novels.

Richard Morgan's debut novel Altered Carbon explored a method of keeping the rich alive, via clones and uploadable memories, for several centuries. The common slang for these people is "Methuselah" or "Meth". This has been argued to be simply a nod to Heinlein's "Howard Family" novels, but this theory is unlikely.

Edward Einhorn's absurdist comedy The Living Methuselah, appearing in his book of plays entitled The Golem, Methuselah, and Shylock, gives another perspective on Methuselah. In it, Methuselah has lived to modern days, through all the major disasters of human history, along with his wife, Serach, the oldest living woman.

In the roleplaying system Storyteller, specifically the source material "Vampire: The Masquerade", a Methuselah refers to the eldest vampires dating after the Great Flood. Vampires predating this (largely thought only to be the clan founders) are referred to as Antediluvians.

In the card game Vampire: the Eternal Struggle, the players are known as "Methuselahs", most likely because they are supposed to be ancient vampires.

In the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah", a "Mr. Flint" living on a distant planet is revealed to be an immortal man born on Earth in the year 3834 BCE. According to the episode, past identities assumed by Mr. Flint included Leonardo Da Vinci, Merlin, Solomon, Lazarus, and Johannes Brahms. But at the end of the episode, Dr McCoy revealed that Flint, having left Earth's sustaining environment, was finally dying. Flint was played in the episode by actor James Daly.

In The Simpsons episode 9F21, there is a reference to a "Methuselah Rookie Card" that pictures a very old man. Ned Flanders is distributing free religious trading cards. And in The Simpsons Bible Stories episode AABF14, Abe Simpson plays Methuselah and is killed by Goliath II (played by Nelson Muntz). David (Bart Simpson) mourns Methuselah as "my oldest friend" and vows revenge.

The movie Blade Runner makes passing reference to Methuselah Syndrome, a glandular condition that causes accelerated aging.

In the manga series Immortal Rain one of the main characters, Rain, is also known as the "meteor Methuselah", and the character Yuca is actually the "spirit of Methuselah". Both characters are immortal.

In the anime RahXephon, the head of the Babahem Foundation is referred to as a modern Methuselah. In the anime Witch Hunter Robin the name is mentioned as "the Methuselah Witch" or the Immortal clan said to be able to control the powers of other witches and live forever unless killed by fire. In another anime, Trinity Blood, vampires are also known as Methuselah as opposed to mortal human beings who are known as Terran.

In the Brian Jacques series Redwall, Methuselah is the name of a very old mouse.

The Smashing Pumpkins recorded a demo of a song entitled "Methuselah" during the sessions preceding the recording of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

Methuselah is the name of the world's oldest living organism, a 4,700 year old bristlecone pine tree.

Scientists planted a seed from an extinct, 2,000-year-old date palm species; the unexpected sprout it produced was named Methuselah. [3]

The song "Razzle Dazzle" from the musical Chicago contains the lines, "Back since the days of old Methuselah, Everyone loves the big bambooz-a-ler".

In Charlotte Bronte's novel Villette, Methusaleh is an old tree in the garden under which Lucy Snowe buries letters from Dr. John.

In the television series Highlander, "Methuselah's Stone" was said to be an ancient stone that could turn any mortal into an immortal. The stone could also make any immortal ten times stronger.

The band Dragonlord has a song entitled "Mark of Damnation", which has the lyric "Immortal Methuselah, smash the grail".

In Doris Lessing's "Play with a Tiger," Methuselah is the name of Mary Jackson's cat.

Methuselah is referenced in the feature film Bicentennial Man by Madam Chairwoman when annoucing Andrew's acceptance as a human and his age.

Yoda in the Star Wars saga is like Methuselah, aging to 900 years old, until he dies.

The nanotechnology used to simulate immortality in Yukito Kishiro's GUNNM/Battle Angel Alita manga universe is called "Methuselah Technology".

In the musical Porgy and Bess by George and Ira Gershwin, Methuselah is mentioned in the lyrics of the song "It Ain't Necessarily So":

Methus'lah lived nine hundred years
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years
But who calls dat livin' when no gal'll give in
To no man what's nine hundred years

On a day (July 22, 2006) of "extreme" races for thoroughbred horses, Calder Race Course held the Methuselah Starter Stakes. Only thoroughbred horses older than five years old (old for thoroughbred race horses) were eligible to compete in the race. The race was won by El Segundo Joe, a five year old gelding.
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See also

* Longevity
* Longevity myths
* Maximum life span
* Methuselah Mouse Prize
* Ageing
* 2000 Year Old Man, a recurring Methuselah comedy routine by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.

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External links

* The Numbers in Genesis 5 Were Mistranslated, by Robert M. Best. Explains the long lifespans as an ancient mistranslation when archaic number signs were translated into sexagesimal numbers. Methuselah lived to be 85 and fathered Lamech at the age of 17.
* Living for 900 years, by Carl Wieland, Answers in Genesis. A creationist explanation of the lifespans recorded in the Bible.
* The Methuselah Mouse Prize: is the premiere effort of The Methuselah Foundation; a scientific competition designed to draw attention to the ability of new technologies to slow and even reverse the damage of the aging process, preserving health and wisdom.
* Why did people live longer before Noah's Flood than they did after it? - another possible explanation of the Biblical lifespans
* Complete Bible Genealogy Family tree of Methuselah

Torah/Old Testament's Genealogy from Adam to David
Adam to Shem Adam Seth Enos Kenan Mahalalel Jared Enoch Methuselah Lamech Noah Shem
Arpachshad to Jacob Arpachshad Shelah Eber Peleg Reu Serug Nahor Terah Abraham Isaac Jacob
Judah to David Judah Perez Hezron Aram Amminadab Nahshon Salmon Boaz Obed Jesse David

Methuselah was born in 3227 BC. He died in 2258 BC. Parents: Enoch and Ednâ.
Spouse: Ednâ. Methuselah and Ednâ were married. Children were: Lamech, Râkê'êl.

METHUSELAH was born 3339 B.C. in Zion, East, Eden and died 2370 B.C. in Shulon, East, Eden. He is said to have lived 969 years and was the world's oldest living man. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Gen. 5:21-27; 1 Chr. 1:3). He married in EDNA 3126 B.C. in Shulon, East of Eden. They are the parents of:

LAMECH

Methuselah or Metushélach (Hebrew: ??????????? / ???????????, Standard M?tušéla? / M?tušála? Tiberian M??ûšéla? / M??ûšala? ; "Man de the dart", or alternatively "when he dies/died, it will be sent/has been sent") is the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The name Methuselah has become a general synonym for any living creature de great age. Methuselah is mentioned in Genesis as the son de Enoch and the father de Lamech (father de Noah), whom he fathered at the age de 187....

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URL: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3044567&id=I30848
# ID: I30848
# Name: METHUSELAH 1 2 3
# Sex: M
# Birth: in 3424 BC 2 3
# Death: in 2455 BC 2 3
# Change Date: 31 MAR 2002 1 2 3

Father: ENOCH b: in 3489 BC
Mother: Living EDNA

Marriage 1 Living EDNA

Children

1. Has Children Living RAKE'EL
2. Has Children Living ELIAKIM
3. Has Children LAMECH b: in 3237 BC

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{geni:occupation} (Mathusala Methusael Methuselah Mathusalem); `Man of the dart', BLESSED, lived 969 years, Prophet

{geni:about_me} [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0105.htm#21 Genesis 5:21, 25-27]

Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah Methuselah] and [http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%97 מתושלח]

Longest lived person in history.

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the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, given as 969 years. The name Methuselah has become a general synonym for any living creature of great age.

Methuselah is calculated to have died in the year of the Great Flood, using the numbers from the Masoretic Text. Rashi's comment on Genesis 7:4 said the seven days preceding the Flood constituted the mourning period for Methuselah, for the sake of whose righteousness the Flood was delayed.

God promised Enoch that judgment would not come as long as Methuselah lived.

Genesis assigns Adam the age of 930 years, which in the standard Ussher chronology makes Methuselah contemporary with Adam (for 243 years) and the last human link between Adam and Noah.

In a midrash version of Sefer haYashar or Book of Jasher,[4] Methuselah accompanied his grandson Noah in attempting to persuade the people of the earth to return to godliness. (Jasher 5:7) All other very long-lived people died, and Methuselah was the only one of this class left. (Jasher 5:21) God planned to bring the flood after all the men who walked in the ways of the LORD had died (besides Noah's nuclear family). (Jasher 4:20) Methuselah lived until the ark was built, but died before the flood, since God had promised he would not be killed with the unrighteous. (Jasher 5:21)

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METHUSELAH next married EDNA, daughter of AZRIAL and Unknown.

http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal03171

Marriage (1): Unknown

Marriage (2): Edna

Methuselah next married Edna, daughter of Azrial and Unknown.

LONGEST LIVED. 969 years.

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# Name: Methuselah UNKNOWN

# Given Name: Methuselah

# Surname: UNKNOWN

# Sex: M

# Death: Deceased

Father: Enoch UNKNOWN

Mother: Edna UNKNOWN

Marriage 1 Elena UNKNOWN

Children

1. Has Children Eliakim UNKNOWN

2. Has Children Lamech UNKNOWN

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Event(s)

Birth: ABT 3317 BC

Death: ABT 2307 BC

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Name: *Methuselah Ben Enoch Sex: M Birth: 3313 BC Death: 2344 BC Note: "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah." [Genesis 5:21 (King James Version)]. Note: Note: "And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died." [Genesis 5:25-27 (King James Version)]. Note: Note: Methuselah was born in 3288 B.C. (Anno Mundi 687). He was 187 years old at the birth of his son Lamech in 3101 B.C. (Anno Mundi 874). (Genesis 5:25-27). All the days of Methuselah were 969 years. He died in 2319 B.C. (Anno Mundi 1656). [Klassen, p. 6-7].

Oldest man who ever lived. Lived to the age of 969 yrs.

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Genesis 5: 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.

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Gen 111:

Methuselah, son of Enoch and Edna, was born about 3680 BC. He married his 1st cousin, Edna.

Edna was the daughter of Azrial.

http://www.geocities.com/familyretzlaff/denmark.html

Methuselah is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech (father of Noah), whom he fathered at the alleged age of 187. A close reading of the dates in the Old Testament reveals that Methuselah is said to have died in the year of the Great Flood, but the Bible does not say that he was among those who died in the flood. Some have interpreted his name as a prophecy: when he dies, the Flood will come. In that case, the long life has an allegorical dimension, showing that God withheld judgment on humans for a very long time.

According to the Bible, he reached the age of 969 years. Genesis 5:27 states, "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died" (American Standard Version). Genesis 5:5 states, "So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died." (American Standard Version). Assuming Adam's life began at the time of creation, Adam was alive when Methuselah was born. This makes Methuselah the human link between Adam and Noah (assuming Methuselah died at the time of the flood, or at least after Noah's birth).

However, in the ancient texts from which the English Bible was translated, there are variations of the ages of the patriarchs in different versions. The Samaritan Pentateuch gives ages adjusted to exactly match the flood.[1]

Methuselah is also mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Enoch as being the son of Enoch and as having brothers. The writer tells Methuselah of the coming Deluge and of a future Messianic kingdom.[2]

Using Bishop Ussher's Bible chronology from the creation to Nebuchadnezzar II provides the following dates: [3]

* 4004 BC - Creation

* 3317 BC - Birth of Methuselah

* 3000 BC - Approximate building of the Great Pyramids of Giza

* 2348 BC - Death of Methuselah and Noah's flood

Modern science puts the natural limit on current human longevity below 130 years; the oldest person documented beyond reasonable doubt, Jeanne Calment, died at 122. This being the case, Methuselah's lifespan has been a source of much speculation. Some resolve the issue by suggesting that Methuselah's long lifespan is not meant to be taken literally, while others attribute it to translation errors inflating a shorter lifespan. Biblical literalists, on the other hand, have proposed several reasons that might explain a drastic decrease in the human lifespan after the Flood. The most compelling, however, is the fact that Gen. 6:3 says, "And the Lord said, 'My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.'" This is interpreted by some as a prophecy that man's lifespan would be gradually shortened over time, as punishment for sin, regardless of the fact many of the lifespans questioned by non-creationists occur well after Genesis. Further, according to Genesis chapter 2, prior to 'the fall' in the Garden of Eden man could have lived forever.

Creationists accept the ages recorded in the Bible,[4] and have speculated on reasons for the dramatic decrease in lifespans following the Great Flood of Noah's time. One reason claimed is that conditions before the flood caused much less ultraviolet light from the sun to impact the earth, and that this allowed for longer life spans. The Institute for Creation Research has posited that a 'vapor canopy' surrounded the earth before the Flood, and that it was the source of the floodwaters. Such a canopy would also have protected humankind from what they allege to be aging effects of the sun's ultraviolet rays. After the dissipation of the canopy during the Flood, according to this theory, lifespans dropped rapidly to what they are today. Mainstream scientists have rejected the vapor canopy theory, asserting that it does not stand up to any scientific analysis.[5]

Young Earth creationist Carl Wieland alternatively speculates that the decline in lifespan is because of the drastic reduction in population due to the Flood, causing a genetic bottleneck in which the genes that were 'coded for longevity' were lost. One such genetic factor could have involved the shortening of telomeres.[6]

Christians point out that the Bible says God shortened the normal human lifespan to a maximum of 120 years (Genesis 6:3).

Witness Lee's "Four Falls of Man" hypothesis claims that man's life span was shortened four times, due to sin: from everlasting to 1,000 (first fall: Adam's), from 1,000 to 500 (second fall: the Earth around the time of Noah), from 500 to 250 (third fall) and finally from 250 to 120 (fourth fall brings in the law with Moses).

Notably, in the times of King David, when actual ages were recorded, the ages of the kings generally were in the range of 40-70 years old.

If one assumes that the age of 969 indicates months instead of years (indicating a mistranslation), Methuselah's age is calculated as 80.75 years (969/12), which is a more realistic lifespan, but this requires that months be in the modern twelfths of a year. Another theory suggests lunar cycles were mistaken for the solar ones. If this is the case, each lifespan from Genesis would be shortened by a factor of 12.37 and give ages for Methuselah and his contemporaries that resemble those of modern humans. However, objections to such life-shortening calculations have been raised on the grounds that, if reductions by these factors are carried out, several biblical fathers would have had children while they themselves were approximately five years old.[7]

One solution involving translation error is proposed by Robert Best, who suggests that inaccurate conversion between various ancient Sumerian numerical systems produced the ages of Methuselah, Noah, and kin out of archaic Sumerian numerals. Best calculates that Methuselah's actual age would have been 85, and that he would have had his first son at age 17 (instead of age 187).[8]

The passage in Genesis 6:3 has been used to justify the hypothesis that God put a limit of 120 years on the length of human life. Others believe this 120 year time period is a reference to a time of probation placed on mankind leading up to the flood. The rapid shortening of human life may be explained by the introduction of flesh food into the human diet mentioned in Genesis 9:3. An alternative explanation is the writer of Genesis 6:3 did not know of anybody who lived longer than 120 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah

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(Me·thu′se·lah) [possibly, Man of the Missile].

Son of the faithful prophet Enoch; father of Lamech and grandfather of Noah. (Ge 5:21-29; 1Ch 1:1-4; Jude 14, 15) A descendant of Adam through Seth, Methuselah was of the eighth human generation. (Lu 3:37, 38) He enjoyed a life span of 969 years, the longest of Bible record, and one that has become proverbial for longevity. He died in 2370 B.C.E., the year in which the Flood began. But the Scriptures say that Methuselah “died,” not that he perished in the Deluge as a result of divine execution.—Ge 5:27;

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Died the same year as the flood (probably died in the flood...) The oldest man known to have lived.

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General Notes

* # Note: "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah." [Genesis 5:21 (King James Version)].

# Note:

# Note:

"And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and

nine years: and he died." [Genesis 5:25-27 (King James Version)].

# Note:

# Note:

Methuselah was born in 3288 B.C. (Anno Mundi 687). He was 187 years old at the birth of his son Lamech in 3101 B.C. (Anno Mundi 874). (Genesis 5:25-27). All the days of Methuselah were 969 years. He died in 2319 B.C. (Anno Mundi 1656).

[Klassen, p. 6-7].

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"When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. And after he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died." (Genesis 5:25-27 NIV)

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Name: Matusalah

Given Name: Matusalah

Sex: M 1

Birth: ABT 3331 BC

Death: ABT 2362 BC

Father: Enoc b: ABT 3396 BC

Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown

Children

Lamec b: ABT 3144 BC

Sources:

Abbrev: CBASD 1:183

Title: La Cronologia de la primera epoca de la historia Biblica. InComentario Biblico Adventista del Septimo Dia, Vol 1, pp. 183-207.

Author: Nichol, F. D. & others (Red.). Ampuero Mata, V. (Translator).

Publication: Mountain View, California: Publicaciones Interamericanas, 1978

. Methusalem, Metusela eller Metushelach (det första är hur namnet transponerats via grekiskan, det andra är 1917 års översättning och det sista är Bibel 2000 som ligger närmast det hebreiska originalet) var i judisk mytologi så som den förmedlas av Gamla Testamentet en patriark som sägs ha levat i 969 år. Han var far till Noas far Lemek.

Hans namn har översatts på två olika sätt: dels "Hans död skall sända den" och dels "Man av spjutet" eller "Man av pilen". Intressant nog så var hans far, Hanok/Henok/Enok, en profet samtidigt som han tycks ha dött samma år som syndafloden kom.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah

Source - Wikipedia

Enoch - Methuselah - Lamech

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa, and Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of She-alti-el, and She-alti-el the father of Zerubbabel, and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.]

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Born ~ 3313 BC. Died ~ 2344 BC.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah

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Lived 969 years.

Was 187 years old when Lamech was born.

Genesis 5:21-27

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Lived 969 years.
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'''Bible Verses that Refer to Methuselah:'''

'''Genesis 5:21'''

When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

'''Genesis 5:22'''

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

'''Genesis 5:25'''

When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.

'''Genesis 5:26'''

After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

'''Genesis 5:27'''

Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

'''1 Chronicles 1:3'''

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.

'''Luke 3:37'''

the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Kenan,
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# Birth: in 3317 BC

# Death: in 2348 BC

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Genesis
And Methuselah lived one hndred and eighty seven years, and became the father of Lamech. Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died.
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(c. 3317-2348 a. de J.C.)

BIOGRAPHY: Methuselah 1 (Edna , Daniel , Mahalalel , Cainan , Enosh , Azura , ) was born 3313 BC in Zion, , East Eden. He died 2344 BC in Shulon, , East Eden.

BIOGRAPHY: Note: Lived 965 yrs (ca 3313-2344 BC); Methuselah was 187 and begat Lamech.
b. Zion, East Eden, d. Shulon, East Eden .(FLOOD?)
!Ref Mat: KJV-Holy Bible, Gen 5:25-27,Luk 3:37, RL Chart compiled by
A.F.Bennet, A.F.Schmuhl,Ped.Chart of the Campbell Family;
Gareth Rice; Jack Davis;

BIOGRAPHY: Methuselah married Edna (His Ist cousin), daughter of Azrial.

BIOGRAPHY: They had the following children:

BIOGRAPHY: + 24 M i Laznech.
+ 25 M ii Rakeel.
+ 26 M iii Lamech was born 3126 BC and died 2349 BC.

Gen 5:21; 1 Chr 1:3

Or Luke 3:37 Mathusala Rin 8901

Sired Lamech at age 187; lived 782 more years; died at age 969.
Born 3378 less 65 = 3313 BC

Book of Rememberance - Meacham

born 687 BC
died 1656 BC

Methusalah (695-1664 after creation, 3073-2104 BCE) married Edna daughterof Azrial. Children: Lamech, Rakel, Eliakim. Genesis 5:21.

Methuselah (Mathusala or Mathusale)
Exact meaning is somewhat uncertain: Dr. Henry Morris says it may mean,"When he dies, judgment." Others say: "When he is dead it shall be sent"("it" refers to the Deluge) (Cornwall and Smith, Exhaustive Dictionary ofBible Names). Others say the name means: "Man of the dart" or"...javelin" (Holzinger / Also: Larry Richards, Every Man in the Bible.

the son of Enoch, father of Lamech, and grandfather of Noah

He was the oldest man of whom we have any record. This very ancient manlived before the Flood, and died at the age of 969 years, in the year ofthe Flood (Gen. 5:21-27; 1 Chr. 1:3). This fact, plus the former possiblemeaning of his name, suggests that Methuselah's very godly father, Enoch,received a prophecy from God when his son was born, thus the name.Methuselah's great age may be further evidence of God's"long-suffering...in the days of Noah" (1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 3:9).

Methuselah's name is mentioned seven times in the Bible: Genesis 5:21,22,25,26,27; 1 Chronicles 1:3; Luke 3:37.

RESEARCH NOTES:
Oldest man in Bible. Died in Noah's flood

SOURCE NOTES:
http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/persons/per05665.htm#0
Genesis

Genesis 5:27 says Methusalah lived 969 years, making him the longest- l ived man in history.

Methuselah died the year of the flood;

Gen 5:21; 1 Chr 1:3

Or Luke 3:37 Mathusala Rin 8901

Sired Lamech at age 187; lived 782 more years; died at age 969.
Born 3378 less 65 = 3313 BC

Book of Rememberance - Meacham

Methuselah or Metushélach (Hebrew: ??????????? / ???????????, Standard M?tušéla? / M?tušála? Tiberian M??ûšéla? / M??ûšala? ; "Man of the dart", or alternatively "when he dies/died - he (someone) will/had send/sent it") is the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He allegedly reached the age of 969 years. According to the Book of Genesis 5:27: "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died" (American Standard Version). The name Methuselah has become a general synonym for any living creature of great age.

Using the Bible's chronology from the creation to Nebuchadrezzar II provides the following dates:[1]

* 4004 BC - Creation
* 3317 BC - Birth of Methuselah
* 2348 BC - Death of Methuselah and Noah's flood
Biblical mentions

Methuselah is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech (father of Noah), whom he fathered at the age of 187. A close reading of the dates in the Old Testament reveals that Methuselah is said to have died in the year of the Great Flood, but the Bible does not indicate if the cause of his death was by drowning. Some have interpreted his name as a prophecy: when he dies, the Flood will come. In that case, the long life has an allegorical dimension, showing that God withheld judgment on humans for a very long time.

Methuselah is also mentioned in the Book of Enoch as being the son of Enoch and as having brothers. The writer tells Methuselah of the coming Deluge and of a future Messianic kingdom.[1]

[edit] Lifespan

Modern science puts the natural limit on current human longevity well below 150 years. This being the case, Methuselah's lifespan has been a source of much speculation. Some resolve the issue by suggesting that Methuselah's long lifespan is not meant to be taken literally, while others attribute it to translation errors inflating a shorter lifespan. Biblical literalists, on the other hand, have proposed several reasons that might explain a drastic decrease in the human lifespan after the Noachian deluge.

One solution involving translation error is proposed by Robert Best, who suggests that inaccurate conversion between various ancient Sumerian numerical systems produced the ages of Methuselah, Noah, and kin out of Sumerian king lists; Best calculates that Methuselah's actual age would have been 85, and that he would have had his first son at age 17 (as opposed to after age 100).[2] Another theory suggests lunar cycles were mistaken for the solar ones; if this is the case, each lifespan from Genesis would be shortened by a factor of 12.37; this calculation also gives ages for Methuselah and his contemporaries that resemble those of modern humans. Objections to such life-shortening calculations, however, may be raised on the grounds that, if reductions by these factors are carried out, several biblical fathers would have had children while they themselves were approximately five years old.[3]

Creationists, meanwhile, accept the ages recorded in the Bible, and have speculated on reasons for the dramatic decrease in lifespans following the Great Flood of Noah's time. One reason claimed is that conditions before the flood caused much less ultraviolet light from the sun to impact the earth, and that this allowed for longer life spans. The Institute for Creation Research has posited that a vapor canopy surrounded the earth before the Flood, and that it was the source of the floodwaters. Such a canopy would also have protected humankind from the aging effects of the sun's ultraviolet rays. After the dissipation of the canopy during the Flood, according to this theory, lifespans dropped rapidly to what they are today. Mainstream scientists have rejected the "vapor canopy" theory, asserting that it does not stand up to scientific analysis.[4]

Young Earth creationist Carl Wieland alternatively speculates that the decline in lifespan is because of the drastic reduction in population due to the Flood, causing a genetic bottleneck in which the genes that coded for longevity were lost.[5]

For some Bible believers, the cause of the decrease in human longevity is that God sets a specific lifespan for human beings, as in Genesis 6:3: "Then the Lord said, 'My Spirit will not contend with [or "remain in"] man forever, for he is mortal [or "corrupt" (NIV)] ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.'" Witness Lee's "Four Falls of Man" hypothesis holds that man's life span was shortened four times, due to sin: from everlasting to 1,000 (first fall--the fall of Adam;) from 1,000 to 500 (second fall...the Earth around the time of Noah), from 500 to 250 (third fall) and finally from 250 to 120 (fourth fall brings in the law with Moses). Notably, in the times of King David, when actual ages were recorded, the ages of the kings generally were in the range of 40-70 years old.

3313 BC-2344 BC; PER BIBLICAL SCHOLARS, HE DIED THE YEAR OF "THE FLOOD"

lived 969 years

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