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McCracken’s Notes

(10) THE BOOK OF METHUSELAH
(Pgs. 64-68)

This short section has many interesting

features:
- The story is set some years later.
Methuselah is now head of the family (since

Enoch went off to live with the Angels, (see
81.6), a year after he wrote the book).

- Methuselah's son Lamech is now grown up,
and his first son is born.

- At 106.2, we get a description of the
child who will be named Noah.
- It seems he had white or blonde hair, a

red birthmark, and perhaps blue eyes. Even
more surprising, at 106.5, we learn that

this is what the Watchers look like.
- If some of the wives of Enoch's family
were descended from the runaways, then

Lamech could easily have had an
unexpectedly blonde-haired child.

- Lamech is disturbed about his baby's
unusual appearance and goes to see
Methuselah.

- This section seems to have been written
by Methuselah, to reassure his son about

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