And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
And all the days of Enos are nine hundred and five years, and he dieth.
And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
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And all the days or Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
For it is the mark of a wise man to separate oneself from the pleasures of the flesh, to elevate the soul, and to withdraw from the body; for this is truly to recognize oneself as a human being. He who is called Enos in the Chaldean language is called, in Latin, homo.
Ambrose of Milan· On Isaac and the Soul, Chapter I, 397patristic
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
