Nine hundred and sixty-nine years — and he died
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καὶ ἐγένοντο πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι Μαθουσάλα ἃς ἔζησεν ἐννακόσια καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἐννέα ἔτη, καὶ ἀπέθανεν.
Methuselah’s total: 969 years, the longest life of any human being named in the Bible. The refrain returns in full here — relative clause and all, matching v.5’s form exactly (the two longest-lived men outside Enoch, Adam and Methuselah, are the only ones given this fuller closing formula) — and closes, as it must, with death.
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