Genesis 5:21
Context5:21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 7:20
Context7:20 The waters rose more than twenty feet 1 above the mountains. 2
Genesis 11:12
Context11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 47:2
Context47:2 He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh. 3


[7:20] 1 tn Heb “rose fifteen cubits.” Since a cubit is considered by most authorities to be about eighteen inches, this would make the depth 22.5 feet. This figure might give the modern reader a false impression of exactness, however, so in the translation the phrase “fifteen cubits” has been rendered “more than twenty feet.”
[7:20] 2 tn Heb “the waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward and they covered the mountains.” Obviously, a flood of twenty feet did not cover the mountains; the statement must mean the flood rose about twenty feet above the highest mountain.
[47:2] 1 tn Heb “and from the whole of his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh.”