↑Cassuto, Umberto (1972). A Commentary on the Book of Genesis Part I From Adam to Noah. แปลโดย Israel Abrahams. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press. p. 264. ISBN978-965-223-480-3. Although the ages in our section may appear high compared with the normal human life-span, yet if we bear in mind the notions prevailing in the environment in which the Torah was written, and the impression that the reading of this section must have left on its ancient readers, they will seem, on the contrary, low and modest.
↑Cassuto, Umberto (1972). A Commentary on the Book of Genesis Part I From Adam to Noah. แปลโดย Israel Abrahams. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press. pp. 261–262. ISBN978-965-223-480-3. {...}the numbers five and seven are specially stressed in the text, in a way calculated to attract the reader's attention.{...}In the enumeration of Lamech's years-seven and seventy years, and seven hundred years (v.31)- the emphasis given to the number seven is even more manifest.{...} Possibly the number 365 in v.23 is intended by Scripture to provide us with the key to the understanding of our subject, as though to say: Pray do not forget that every year has 365 days.
↑Cassuto, Umberto (1972). A Commentary on the Book of Genesis Part I From Adam to Noah. แปลโดย Israel Abrahams. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press. p. 266. ISBN978-965-223-480-3. The names of the founding fathers of the world in our chapter, beginning with Enosh, bear a remarkable resemblance to the names that appear in the family-tree of the sons of Cain.{...}the series Mahalalel-Jared-Enoch parallels, in reverse order, the series Enoch-Irad-Meḥujael{...}the similarity is striking, and cannot be regarded as fortuitous.