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Genesis 5:11

Genesis 5:11

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And all the days or Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. According to the Arabic writers , this man was a very good man, governed his people well, and instructed them in the ways of righteousness, and the fear of God; and when his end drew nigh, his offspring gathered about him for his blessing; and calling them to him, he ordered them by his will to practise holiness, and exhorted them not to mix with the offspring of Cain the murderer; and having appointed Cainan his successor, he died in the year of his age nine hundred and five, A.

M. 1340, and was buried in the holy mountain; but according to Bishop Usher it was A. M. 1140. Elmacinus, apud Hottinger, p.

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