Mahalaleel

MAHALALEEL, or Malaleel, Son of Canaan of the Race of Seth. Mahaleel begat Gen. v. 15, 16, &c.Jared at the Age of sixty five Years. He lived afterwards eight hundred Years, in all eight hundred sixty five Years, and died in the Year of the World 1290, before Christ 2710, before the Vulgar Æra 2714.

The Orientals will have it¹, that this Patriarch was the first of those that undertook to dig Mines in the Earth, for the Discovery of Veins of Metals concealed therein; and that he built Houses. They also impute to him the first founding of the Cities Shuster and Babel. Some confound him with the Giant Dondash, who entered himself into the Service of Seth, whom they acknowledged as the Prophet and universal Monarch of the World before the Flood. They say the Giant Dondash made Use of no Weapons, either offensive or defensive, and that he fought naked from his Head down to his Navel, by the Strength of his Arms only.

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