Nine hundred and thirty years — and he died
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καὶ ἐγένοντο πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι Ἀδὰμ ἃς ἔζησεν ἐννακόσια καὶ τριάκοντα ἔτη, καὶ ἀπέθανεν.
The formula’s close: a full lifetime totaled, and death. Nine hundred thirty years is Adam’s whole span — and the first occurrence of the single word that becomes this chapter’s drumbeat, ἀπέθανεν, “he died,” closing eight of the ten lives counted here. It will fall silent only once, remarkably, at the seventh name in this list (Enoch, v.24) — a single, deliberate break in an otherwise unbroken refrain that every reader of the genealogy is meant to feel coming by the time it happens.
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