John Gill Commentary Genesis 5:21

"And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:" — Genesis 5:21 (ASV)

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and fathered Methuselah. Here the Septuagint version adds again an hundred years; and that Enoch had a son, whose name was Methuselah, is affirmed by Eupolemus ^F18, an Heathen writer; and Enoch, being a prophet, gave him this name under a spirit of prophecy, foretelling by it when the flood should be; for his name, according to Bochart ^F19, signifies, "when he dies there shall be an emission", or sending forth of waters upon the earth, to destroy it.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F18: Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 17. p. 419.
• F19: Thaleg. l. 2. c. 13. col. 88. so Ainsworth.