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Methuselah () is the man reported to have lived the longest at the age of 969 in the Hebrew Bible.〔Genesis 5:27〕 Extra-biblical tradition maintains that he died on the 11th of Cheshvan of the year 1656AM (Anno Mundi, after Creation), seven days before the beginning of the Great Flood.〔Methuselah dying before the flood is based on the Masoretic Text of Genesis 5 and his dying after the flood based on the Genesis 5 numbers in the Lucianic Septuagint (Codex Vaticanus).〕 Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. ==In the Bible== Methuselah is mentioned in one passage in the Hebrew Bible, , as part of the genealogy linking Adam to Noah. The genealogy is repeated, without the chronology, at , and at . The following is taken from the King James Version of the Bible. :21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: :22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: :23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: :24 And Enoch walked with God: and he ''()'' not; for God took him. :25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: :26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: :27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. — The verses are available in three manuscript traditions, the Masoretic, the Septuagint and the Samaritan Torah. The three traditions do not agree with each other. The differences can be summarized as follows: There have been numerous attempts to account for these differences – the most obvious being accidental corruption by copyists and translators. Some errors may be the result of mistaken attempts to correct previous errors. Gerhard Larsson has suggested that the rabbis who translated the Septuagint from Hebrew to Greek in Alexandria around the 3rd century BC, aware that the Egyptian historian Manetho makes no mention of a Deluge, lengthened the patriarchs' ages to push back the time of the flood to before the first Egyptian dynasty.〔(Quoted in the website of the Institute for Biblical and Scientific Studies )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Methuselah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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