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Methuselah
A son of Enoch in the Old Testament. Methuselah lived 969 years (Gen. 5:21–27; Luke 3:37; Moses 8:7). He was a righteous prophet who was left on the earth when the city of Enoch was taken to heaven. He remained on earth to provide a posterity through which Noah would come (Moses 8:3–4).