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Lamech (I)

I. LAMECH, the Son Methuselah, and Father of Noah. He lived a hundred Gen. v. 25, 31.fourscore and two Years before the Birth of Noah; and after it he lived five hundred and ninety five Years longer; thus the whole Time of his Life was seven Hundren seventy seven Years, being born in the Year of the World 874, and dying in the Year 1651.

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