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
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