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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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METHUSELAH , in the Old Testament, the seventh in descent from See also:

Adam, and See also:father of See also:Lamech. According to See also:Genesis v. 21 he lived 969 years (see See also:BIBLE: Old Testament, § 5, " See also:Chronology "). The name itself has been much discussed. Holzinger interprets it as " See also:man of the See also:javelin ": Hommel prefers " man of Selah," Selah being the Hebraized See also:form of the Babylonian Sarrahu (i.e. the See also:god See also:Sin), and identifies it with the'Aµhjs os of See also:Berossus. The form Methushael, used by the author of Gen. iv. 18 and by some commentators preferred for Gen. v. 21, is variously explained as meaning " man of El " (See also:Ball), or as a transcription (See also:Sayce) of the Babylonian Mutula-See also:ili (possibly, " man of the goddess").

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