Editing Methuselah (section)

===Mistranslation===
Some believe that Methuselah's extreme age is the result of an ancient mistranslation that converted "months" to "years", producing a more credible 969 lunar months, or 78½ years,<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Carol A. |last1=Hill |date=December 2003 |title=Making Sense of the Numbers of Genesis |journal=[[Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith]] |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=239–51 |url=https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2003/PSCF12-03Hill.pdf}}</ref> but the same calculation applied to Enoch would have him fathering Methuselah at the age of 5<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Henry M. |title=The Genesis Record: A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on the Book of Beginnings |page=[https://archive.org/details/genesisrecordsc00morr/page/159 159] |year=1976 |publisher=[[Baker Book House]] |location=[[Grand Rapids, Michigan]] |quote=Such an interpretation would have made Enoch only five years old when his son was born! |isbn=0-8010-6004-4 |author-link=Henry M. Morris |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/genesisrecordsc00morr/page/159 }}</ref> using numbers from the [[Masoretic Text]]. Donald V. Etz suggested that the Genesis 5 numbers "might for convenience have all been multiples of 5 or 10".<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Donald V. |last1=Etz |date=April 1993 |title=The Numbers of Genesis V 3-31: A Suggested Conversion and Its Implications |journal=Vetus Testamentum |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=171–89 |jstor=1519351 |id={{INIST|4293595}} |doi=10.1163/156853393x00034}}</ref>

Ellen Bennet argued that the [[Septuagint]] Genesis 5 numbers are in tenths of years, which "will explain how it was that they read 930 years for the age of Adam instead of 93 years, and 969 years for Methuselah instead of 96 years, and 950 years for that of Noah instead of 95 years"... "Surely it is much more rational to conclude that Noah lived 50 years instead of 500 years before he took a wife and begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth..." and then lists the Septuagint total ages with decimal points: 93.0 for Adam, 91.0 for [[Cainan]], 96.9 for Methuselah, 95.0 for Noah, etc.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Ellen H. |last1=Bennet |year=1897 |chapter=Cosmogony, or Creation of the World |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rb9CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30 |pages=30–7 |title=Astrology: Science of Knowledge and Reason: A Treatise on the Heavenly Bodies in an Easy and Comprehensive Form |location=New York |oclc=11451986}}</ref> This, however, also implies that Enoch became a father at the age of 6.5 and that the other [[antediluvian]] patriarchs did so at implausibly young ages.