There were exactly 1,211 years from the creation of Adam until the flood.
Ten generations had passed.
And, Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. He lived longer than any human being ever had or ever will. After all, "one day is as a thousand years to the Lord our God".
And, "in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die."
During this time, however, there lived a man called Enoch, in the seventh generation. He walked with God. He was so good, that God didn't let him die. God took him up, and he just disappeared from the face of the earth in the 887th year - just 324 years before the flood.
King James gathered religious scholars from all over the world to create the Bible as we know it today. Some of the books of scrolls that were left out of the Bible were considered "scripture" at that time. These books became known as "The Apocrypha". They are included in the Roman Catholic Bible today, and they are called "Deuterocanonical" books.
In this section is a book called "The Book of Enoch" that is worth reading, to get a picture of what went on during that time that led to the flood.
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