Methuselah Methuselah Methuselah ( "Metushelaḥ" "Man of the javelin" or "Man of Selah") is a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Said to have died at the age of 969, he lived the longest of all figures mentioned in the Bible. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. Elsewhere in the Bible, Methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1st Chronicles and the Gospel of Luke. His life is described in further detail in extra-biblical religious texts such as the Book of Enoch, Slavonic
Bible translations into Polish for the Old Testament they consulted besides the Hebrew text the ancient versions and different modern Latin ones. Two years after the Brest Bible was completed the Calvinist and Radical wings of the Reformed church split in 1565, and the Bible was suspect to both groups: The Calvinist "Ecclesia Major" suspected it of Arian interpretations; the Radical "Ecclesia Minor" complained that it was not accurate enough. Symon Budny, a Belarusian of the Judaizing wing of the "Ecclesia Minor" especially charged against the Brest Bible that it was not prepared according to the original texts, but after the Vulgate and other