20. The whole lifetime of Jared was nine hundred and sixty-two years; then he died.
21. When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he begot Methuselah.
22. Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah for three hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.
23. The whole lifetime of Enoch was three hundred and sixty-five years.
24. Enoch walked with God, and he was no longer here, for God took him.
25. When Methuselah was one hundred and eighty-seven years old, he begot Lamech.
26. Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he begot Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.
27. The whole lifetime of Methuselah was nine hundred and sixty-nine years; then he died.
28. When Lamech was one hundred and eighty-two years old, he begot a son
29. and named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands, out of the very ground that the Lord has put under a curse.”