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Lamech, son of Methuselah

Father
Methuselah
Wife
Ashmua (Book of Jasher)
Children
Noah

Citations

5) And it came to pass that Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begat Lamech;
6) And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begat sons and daughters;
7) And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.
8) And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and begat a son,
9) And he called his name Noah, saying: This son shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
10) And Lamech lived, after he begat Noah, five hundred and ninety-five years, and begat sons and daughters;
11) And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.
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.
13) And these are the generations of Enoch, Methuselah, Elisha, and Elimelech, three sons; and their sisters were Melca and Nahmah, and Methuselah lived eighty-seven years and he begat Lamech.
14) And it was in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Lamech when Adam died; nine hundred and thirty years old was he at his death, and his two sons, with Enoch and Methuselah his son, buried him with great pomp, as at the burial of kings, in the cave which God had told him.
9) In those days when Lamech the son of Methuselah was one hundred and sixty years old, Seth the son of Adam died.
11) And Lamech was one hundred and eighty years old when he took Ashmua, the daughter of Elishaa the son of Enoch his uncle, and she conceived.
13) And the wife of Lamech conceived and bare him a son at that time, at the revolution of the year.
14) And Methuselah called his name Noah, saying, The earth was in his days at rest and free from corruption, and Lamech his father called his name Menachem, saying, this one shall comfort us in our works and miserable toil in the earth, which God had cursed.
15) And the child grew up and was weaned, and he went in the ways of his father Methuselah, perfect and upright with God.

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