Seven hundred and eighty-two years more
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καὶ ἔζησεν Μαθουσάλα μετὰ τὸ γεννῆσαι αὐτὸν τὸν Λάμεχ ἑπτακόσια καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα δύο ἔτη, καὶ ἐγέννησεν υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας.
Methuselah’s remaining years. Here again Swete’s Codex-A figure (782) differs from Brenton’s main Vaticanus-tradition text (802, “eight hundred and two”) — and again Brenton’s own footnote independently records “Alex. 782,” confirming the frozen reading. The two figures given for Methuselah across vv.25-26, 187 and 782, sum to 969: the longest human lifespan recorded anywhere in the Bible.
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