Genesis 5:27
“And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 5Meaning
Methuselah's life totals 969 years, the greatest age listed in the chapter, before the text states that he died.
Read carefully
The verse does not connect Methuselah's age to a coded prediction of the flood; chronological proposals must distinguish calculation from explicit textual claim.
Reflection
Even the genealogy's greatest longevity does not escape its central refrain, making length of life different from victory over death.