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Genesis 5:27-29
New Living Translation
Genesis 5:27-29
New Living Translation
27 Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.
28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he became the father of a son. 29 Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, “May he bring us relief[a] from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the Lord has cursed.”
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- 5:29 Noah sounds like a Hebrew term that can mean “relief” or “comfort.”
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