Patriarchs (Bible) near Bethlehem, at the site where she is believed to have died in childbirth. The lifetimes given for the patriarchs in the Masoretic Text of the Book of Genesis are: Adam 930 years, Seth 912, Enos 905, Kenan 910, Mahalalel 895, Jared 962, Enoch 365 (did not die, but was taken away by God), Methuselah 969, Lamech 777, Noah 950. The lifespans given have surprising chronological implications, as the following quotation shows. According to the Bible, many of the tribes living in the Middle East between the time of Abraham and the time of Christ have a genealogical connection to
Tyndale Bible today are mainly in the language of Tyndale. An example of this is Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers." The importance of the Tyndale Bible in shaping and influencing the English language has been mentioned. According to one writer, Tyndale is "the man who more than Shakespeare even or Bunyan has moulded and enriched our language." Tyndale used "ester" for "paskha" () in his New Testament, where Wycliffe had used "pask". When Tyndale embarked on his Old Testament translation, he realised that the anachronism of "ester" could not be sustained; and so coined the neologism, "passover"; which later Bible versions