Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 5:31

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 5:31 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 5:31. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this means that Lamech lived a very long time, 777 years, and then he passed away, just like everyone else. It's a way to show us how people lived for many years back then in Bible times.

Genesis 5:31: And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Contradiction with Genesis 6:3

Limits human lifespan to 120 years, whereas Genesis 5:31 describes Lamach living 777 years.

Genesis 6:3: And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Contradiction with Genesis 11:10-11

Describes Shem living 600 years, which contradicts the limit on lifespan stated in Genesis 6:3 following Genesis 5:31 where people lived much longer.

Genesis 11:10-11: These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

Contradiction with Psalm 90:10

States that the days of human life are seventy years, in contrast to the lengthy lifespan of 777 years described in Genesis 5:31.

Psalm 90:10: The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [The days...: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years]
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