How long did Adam live?

Genesis 5, the Book of the Generations of Adam, lists the descendants of Adam from Seth to Noah with their ages at the birth of their first sons (except Adam himself, for whom his age at the birth of Seth, his third son, is given) and their ages at death (Adam lives 930 years, up to the 56th year of Lamech, father of ...
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Who lived the longest in the Bible?

He had the longest lifespan of all those given in the Bible, having died at the age 969. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. Elsewhere in the Bible, Methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1 Chronicles and the Gospel of Luke.
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How long did Adam and Eve live for?

Adam's age at death is given as 930 years.
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Who in the Bible lived to be 969 years old?

Methuselah, Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) patriarch whose life span as recorded in Genesis (5:27) was 969 years; he has survived in legend and tradition as the longest-lived human.
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When did Adam live 130 years?

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
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How did early humans live so long?

The answer, it turns out, may lie in the meaty diets of their early human ancestors and the evolution of genes that protected them from the many hazards of carnivory.
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How many children did Adam and Eve have?

The book of Genesis mentions three of Adam and Eve's children: Cain, Abel and Seth.
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Who lived 110 years in Bible?

Genesis 50:22 New Living Translation (NLT)

So Joseph and his brothers and their families continued to live in Egypt. Joseph lived to the age of 110.
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Who is the second oldest man in the Bible?

Jared's age was given as 962 years old when he died (when Noah was 366), making him the second-oldest person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint.
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What is the longest name in the Bible?

Biblical accounts

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
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What language did Adam and Eve speak?

The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
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How long did Jesus live for?

Considering Jesus' varying chronology, he was 33 to 40 years old at his time of death.
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How many wives did Adam have in the Bible?

For Adam was the one husband of Eve, and Eve his one wife, one woman, one rib."
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Who is the oldest man on earth?

The oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated is 115-year-old Maria Branyas of Spain, born 4 March 1907. The world's oldest known living man is 113-year-old Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela, born 27 May 1909.
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Who is the oldest person ever existed?

The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.
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Who is the oldest person alive 2022?

Sister André became the oldest living person last year when the previous oldest person, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died at 119 years old in April 2022. According to the Gerontology Research Group, the oldest living person is now Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at 115 years and 320 days, as of Wednesday.
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Who was the oldest person to give birth in the Bible?

Sarah, then ninety years old, laughed at this idea. But, as prophesied, she became pregnant with Isaac and she nursed him herself.
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Who was the first man who was born?

ADAM1 was the first man. There are two stories of his creation. The first tells that God created man in his image, male and female together (Genesis 1: 27), and Adam is not named in this version.
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Which book in the Bible does not mention God?

The books of Esther and Song of Songs are the only books in the Hebrew Bible that do not mention God.
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How long is a year in the Bible?

In ancient times, twelve thirty-day months were used making a total of 360 days for the year. Abraham, used the 360-day year, which was known in Ur. The Genesis account of the flood in the days of Noah illustrated this 360-day year by recording the 150-day interval till the waters abated from the earth.
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How old is the earth according to the Bible?

Concerning the age of the Earth, the Bible's genealogical records combined with the Genesis 1 account of creation are used to estimate an age for the Earth and universe of about 6000 years, with a bit of uncertainty on the completeness of the genealogical records, allowing for a few thousand years more.
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Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

The navel is a scar left by the umbilical cord which attatches a foetus to the placenta. If Adam and Eve were created as adults by God they would not have had an umbilical cord.
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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How do we know the Bible is true?

We have copies of the manuscripts and throughout history these copies show that the Bible has been transmitted accurately. Despite common skeptical claims that the Bible has often been changed through the centuries, the physical evidence tells another story. The New Testament records are incredibly accurate.
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