Genesis 5

Genesis 5:3

Adam] Adam lived to the 243 year of Methuselah.

Seth] Seth was borne in the 130th year of Adams age, And so likely soone after the murder of Abel by Cain. In which space of near 130 years, so many might be borne, as might justly occasion that speech of guilty Cain, Every one that findeth me shall slay me.

Genesis 5:23

Enoch] Enoch lived so many years before his Translation, as we have dayes in our year, viz. 365. And his Prophecie mentioned, Jude v. 14, 15. is not intimated in the Old Testament.

Genesis 5:27

Methuselah] Methuselah lived to the 98 year of Shem.

Methuselah] Methuselah the longest liver, died in the beginning of the year of the Flood, as appears by the Chronology of the times and years of those ten Patriarchs; Ch. V. and VII. 6.

Genesis 5:32

Noah] Of Noah’s sonnes, Japhet was the eldest, Shem the second, and Cham the youngest, Gen. VII. 1. and IX. 24. and X. 21. and XI. 10.

Shem] Shem was two years younger then Japhet, Ch. V. 32. and VII. I. and Ch. XI. 10. and lived to the fiftieth year of Isaac. And so Shem is the onely person in Scripture that lived to see his posterity of the tenth generation. And seemes to be Melchizedech, Gen. XIV. 18. Heb. VII. I. &c.