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וַיִּהְיוּ֙ כָּל־יְמֵ֣י מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח תֵּ֤שַׁע וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וּתְשַׁ֥ע מֵאֹ֖ות שָׁנָ֑ה וַיָּמֹֽת׃ (Genesis 5:27) And all the days of Metushelaḥ were nine and sixty years and nine hundred years, and he died. Rhythm of Life and Death This verse from the genealogical record of Genesis presents not only the remarkable lifespan of Metushelaḥ (Methuselah), but also a quintessential example of two core grammatical features in Biblical Hebrew: the waw-consecutive form (also called wayyiqtol) and the poetic numerical construction common in biblical age reckoning.… Learn Hebrew