antediluvian patriarch

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antediluvian patriarch - any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

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patriarch - any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

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Among the antediluvian patriarchs listed in Genesis 5, Lemech had lived 777 years, obviously to emphasize the importance of number 7.

The ages of the personalities in Genesis

There is room to debate Reeves' conclusions about some of the apocalypses granted to the antediluvian patriarchs. It is true that the sections devoted to Enosh and Shem have a number of points in common, but each is sufficiently distinctive to make one think they were at least not created from the same mold.