61This expression is typical of a colophon – a line at the end of a page (or tablet), which is repeated at the top of the next page to indicate continuity. It usually summarizes the preceding account, and often it introduces the next section. See ch. 2:4, 6:9, 10:1, 10:32, 11:10, 11:27, 25:12, 25:19, 36:1.
62Lit. Adam
5: 2 male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
5: 3 63And Adam lived a hundred thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
63The Septuagint adds +100 years to the ages when sons were born, from Adam to Mahalalel, and also to Enoch (and for Lamech to 188 from 182).
5: 4 and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.
5: 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
5: 6 And Seth lived a hundred five years, and begat Enosh:
5: 7 and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
5: 8 and all the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years: and he died.
5: 9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan:
5: 10 and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
5: 11 and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years: and he died.
5: 12 And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:
5: 13 and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
5: 14 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years: and he died.
5: 15 And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and begat Jared:
5: 16 and Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
5: 17 and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years: and he died.
5: 18 And Jared lived a hundred sixty-two years, and begat Enoch:
5: 19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
5: 20 and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years: and he died.
5: 21 And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begat Methuselah:
5: 22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
5: 23 and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years:
5: 24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
5: 25 And Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and begat Lamech:
5: 26 and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and begat sons and daughters:
5: 27 and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years: and he died.
5: 28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty-two years, and begat a son:
5: 29 and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall 64comfort us 65in our work and in the toil of our hands, which cometh because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed!
64Hb. nahem, to comfort.
65In… in… because of Hb. from (three times)
5: 30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and begat sons and daughters:
5: 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years: and he died.
5: 32 And 66Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
66DNA studies show that there is one common ancestor each for all men and all women, and that the male ancestor may be more recent. [Noah is more recent than Eve.] It is suggested most ethnic groups “remained small throughout the last glaciation, before they underwent roughly simultaneous expansions.” [Population in the ark was small.] Nature Genetics 26, p. 358-361 (Nov. 2000). [DNA analysis cannot distinguish “out of Africa” from “early into Africa.” The estimated age of the most recent common male ancestor of all men would be in the range 3,000 to 40,000 years ago (95% confidence, combining data of Dorit, Hammer, and Whitfield). An age of Noah, about 4,500 years ago, is within that range; evolution theories usually are not. See Appendix 3.].
