![]() Psalm 90:10 is simply stating that as a general rule, people live 70-80 years (which is still true today). Genesis 6:3 is a prediction of the timetable for the flood. Neither Genesis 6:3 nor Psalm 90:10 are God-ordained age limits for humanity. Several hundred years after the flood, Moses declared, “The length of our days is seventy years-or eighty, if we have the strength yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away” (Psalm 90:10). And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out to the field, and when they were in the field Cain rose against Abel his brother and killed him. Whatever the case, the 100 years between Genesis 5:32 and 7:6 in no way contradicts the 120 years mentioned in Genesis 6:3. Who died first in Bible and for you is its longing, but you will rule over it. ![]() It is perfectly plausible that God determined the flood to occur in 120 years and then waited several years before He commanded Noah to build the ark. Further, Genesis 5:32 is not the time that God commanded Noah to build the Ark, but rather the age Noah was when he became the father of his three sons. However, the timing of God’s pronouncement of Genesis 6:3 is not given. He was also the oldest of all the figures mentioned in the Bible. Some dispute this interpretation due to the fact that God commanded Noah to build the ark when Noah was 500 years old in Genesis 5:32 and Noah was 600 years old when the flood came (Genesis 7:6) only giving 100 years of time, not 120 years. According to the Bible, Methuselah died the year of the flood but the Bible does not record whether he died during or prior to the flood. Humanity’s days being ended is a reference to humanity itself being destroyed in the flood. However, another interpretation, which seems to be more in keeping with the context, is that Genesis 6:3 is God’s declaration that the flood would occur 120 years from His pronouncement. But the oldest man in the Bible, outliving all the rest, is a man named Methuselah, who lived 969 years ( Genesis 5:27 ). So, 120 years was not a “hard” boundary rather, it was near the age that an especially healthy and fortunate person could expect to survive. Genesis 9:29 records that Noah lived 950 years. Moses and Aaron are the last people explicitly said to have lived that long (Numbers 33:39 Deuteronomy 34:7). By the time of the Exodus, almost no one survived to that age. Methuselah’s name means when he dies it will come, or when he dies it shall come. He was born before the Great Flood, but after Adam and Eve were created. Methuselah was mentioned in Genesis 5:21-27 as the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech. After the flood, the life spans began to shrink dramatically (compare Genesis 5 with Genesis 11) and eventually shrank so that very few people lived to be 120 years old. The oldest living person in the Bible is Methuselah, who lived 969 years. As a result, some interpret Genesis 6:3 to mean that, as a general rule, people will no longer live past 120 years of age. Many people understand Genesis 6:3 to be a 120-year age limit on humanity, “Then the LORD said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal his days will be a hundred and twenty years.’” However, Genesis chapter 11 records several people living past the age of 120.
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