Genesis 5:5

5:5 The entire lifetime ¹  of Adam was 930 years, and then he died. ² 

Genesis 5:20

5:20 The entire lifetime of Jared was 962 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:27

5:27 The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:32

5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he ³  became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 11:11-25

11:11 And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other ⁴  sons and daughters.

11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah. 11:13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other ⁵  sons and daughters. ⁶ 

11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber. 11:15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other ⁷  sons and daughters.

11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg. 11:17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu. 11:19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug. 11:21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor. 11:23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah. 11:25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Psalms 90:10

90:10 The days of our lives add up to seventy years, ⁸ 

or eighty, if one is especially strong. ⁹ 

But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. ¹⁰ 

Yes, ¹¹  they pass quickly ¹²  and we fly away. ¹³ 

[5:5]  ¹ tn Heb “all the days of Adam which he lived”

[5:5]  ² sn The genealogy traces the line from Adam to Noah and forms a bridge between the earlier accounts and the flood story. Its constant theme of the reign of death in the human race is broken once with the account of Enoch, but the genealogy ends with hope for the future through Noah. See further G. F. Hasel, “The Genealogies of Gen. 5 and 11 and their Alleged Babylonian Background,” AUSS 16 (1978): 361-74; idem, “Genesis 5 and 11,” Origins 7 (1980): 23-37.

[5:32]  ³ tn Heb “Noah.” The pronoun (“he”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[11:11]  ⁴ tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

[11:13]  ⁵ tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

[11:13]  ⁶ tc The reading of the MT is followed in vv. 11-12; the LXX reads, “And [= when] Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, [and] he fathered [= became the father of] Cainan. And after he fathered [= became the father of] Cainan, Arphaxad lived four hundred and thirty years and fathered [= had] [other] sons and daughters, and [then] he died. And [= when] Cainan had lived one hundred and thirty years, [and] he fathered [= became the father of] Sala [= Shelah]. And after he fathered [= became the father of] Sala [= Shelah], Cainan lived three hundred and thirty years and fathered [= had] [other] sons and daughters, and [then] he died.” See also the note on “Shelah” in Gen 10:24; the LXX reading also appears to lie behind Luke 3:35-36.

[11:15]  ⁷ tn Here and in vv. 16, 19, 21, 23, 25 the word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

[90:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “the days of our years, in them [are] seventy years.”

[90:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “or if [there is] strength, eighty years.”

[90:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and their pride [is] destruction and wickedness.” The Hebrew noun רֹהַב (rohav) occurs only here. BDB 923 s.v. assigns the meaning “pride,” deriving the noun from the verbal root רהב (“to act stormily [boisterously, arrogantly]”). Here the “pride” of one’s days (see v. 9) probably refers to one’s most productive years in the prime of life. The words translated “destruction and wickedness” are also paired in Ps 10:7. They also appear in proximity in Pss 7:14 and 55:10. The oppressive and abusive actions of evil men are probably in view (see Job 4:8; 5:6; 15:35; Isa 10:1; 59:4).

[90:10]  ¹¹ tn or “for.”

[90:10]  ¹² tn Heb “it passes quickly.” The subject of the verb is probably “their pride” (see the preceding line). The verb גּוּז (guz) means “to pass” here; it occurs only here and in Num 11:31.

[90:10]  ¹³ sn We fly away. The psalmist compares life to a bird that quickly flies off (see Job 20:8).