DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Methuselah, who Genesis 5:27 says lived 969 years. Jared (962) and Noah (950) come next.
Why it’s interesting
Methuselah sits in the genealogy from Adam to Noah, where nearly everyone lives for centuries — Jared at 962, Noah at 950, Adam at 930. The numbers themselves are one of the long-running puzzles of Genesis 5.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.