Genesis 5:12
New International Version
When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

New Living Translation
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.

English Standard Version
When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.

Berean Standard Bible
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.

King James Bible
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

New King James Version
Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.

New American Standard Bible
Now Kenan lived seventy years, and fathered Mahalalel.

NASB 1995
Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

NASB 1977
And Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Kenan lived 70 years and became the father of Mahalalel.

Amplified Bible
When Kenan was seventy years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.

Christian Standard Bible
Kenan was 70 years old when he fathered Mahalalel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Kenan was 70 years old when he fathered Mahalalel.

American Standard Version
And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Qaynan lived seventy years and he begot Mehalaleil:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Cainan lived an hundred and seventy years, and he begot Maleleel.

Contemporary English Version
When Kenan was 70, he had a son named Mahalalel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Malaleel.

English Revised Version
And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.

Good News Translation
When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel,

International Standard Version
When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.

Literal Standard Version
And Cainan lives seventy years [[or one hundred and seventy years]], and begets Mahalaleel.

Majority Standard Bible
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.

New American Bible
When Kenan was seventy years old, he begot Mahalalel.

NET Bible
When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

New Revised Standard Version
When Kenan had lived seventy years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

New Heart English Bible
Kenan lived one hundred and seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

World English Bible
Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.

Young's Literal Translation
And Cainan liveth seventy years, and begetteth Mahalaleel.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Descendants of Adam
11So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died. 12When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.…

Cross References
Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,

Genesis 5:11
So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:13
And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.


Treasury of Scripture

And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:

A.

Luke 3:37
Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,

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Genesis 5
1. Recapitulation of the creation of man.
3. The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah.
22. Enoch's godliness and translation into Heaven.
25. The family line of Methuselah to Noah and his sons
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When Kenan
קֵינָ֖ן (qê·nān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7018: Kenan -- a descendant of Seth

was
וַֽיְחִ֥י (way·ḥî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

70
שִׁבְעִ֣ים (šiḇ·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 7657: Seventy (a cardinal number)

years old,
שָׁנָ֑ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

he became the father of
וַיּ֖וֹלֶד (way·yō·w·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

Mahalaleel.
מַֽהֲלַלְאֵֽל׃ (ma·hă·lal·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4111: praise of God', great-grandson of Seth, also a man of Judah


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