23 He lived to be 365 years old.
24 He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.
25 When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech,
26 and then lived another 782 years. He had other children
27 and died at the age of 969.
28 When Lamech was 182, he had a son,
29 and said, “From the very ground on which the Lord put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah.