16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
16 After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 After he had Jared, he lived another 830 years, having more sons and daughters.
16 After he begot Jared, Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters.
16 After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived another 830Â years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 5:16
Commentary on Genesis 5:6-20
(Read Genesis 5:6-20)
Concerning each of these, except Enoch, it is said, "and he died." It is well to observe the deaths of others. They all lived very long; not one of them died till he had seen almost eight hundred years, and some of them lived much longer; a great while for an immortal soul to be prisoned in a house of clay. The present life surely was not to them such a burden as it commonly is now, else they would have been weary of it. Nor was the future life so clearly revealed then, as it now under the gospel, else they would have been urgent to remove to it. All the patriarchs that lived before the flood, except Noah, were born before Adam died. From him they might receive a full account of the creation, the fall, the promise, and the Divine precepts about religious worship and a religious life. Thus God kept up in his church the knowledge of his will.