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28 When Lamech was one hundred and eighty-two years old, he begot a son 29 (A)and named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands, out of the very ground that the Lord has put under a curse.”[a] 30 Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he begot Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.

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  1. 5:29 The sound of the Hebrew word noah, “Noah,” is echoed in the word yenahamenu, “he will bring us relief”; the latter refers both to the curse put on the soil because of human disobedience (3:17–19) and to Noah’s success in agriculture, especially in raising grapes for wine (9:20–21).