Living to an age of 962 years, who was the second oldest person in the Bible?
Jared (biblical figure) Enoch went on to marry Edna, according to "Jubilees", and the sole named grandchild of Jared is Enoch's son Methuselah, the longest-living human mentioned in the Bible (, , ). Additionally, Jared was a forefather of Noah and his three sons. Jared's age was given as 962 years old when he died, making him the second-oldest person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, his age was 62 at fatherhood and only 847 at death, making Noah the oldest and Jared the seventh-oldest. Jared is also mentioned in Islam in the "Qisas Al-Anbiya", which mentions
The Living Bible of "The Living Bible". After many years of work, the result was an entirely new translation of the Bible. It was published in 1996 as the "Holy Bible:" New Living Translation (NLT). Measurements quoted in this version are converted into metric and in the British version of "The Living Bible" money sums are converted into pound sterling. At 1 Samuel 24:3, The Living Bible has "Saul went into the cave to go to the bathroom", using a contemporary North American euphemism where the original Hebrew (also a euphemism) literally translates as "to cover his feet". In the British edition of