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Methuselah lived in the world described in Genesis 1-9. This world was physically different to ours - it contained Eden which was originally designed for eternal life. Characteristics of a perfect world include a sun that would not cause sunburn or cancer, and a world with no famines or plagues or earthquakes or other annoying things. Though the ground was cursed after Adam's sin, that world still was a far better place to live than our world, even after the curse.

That world can be thought of as a parallel universe to ours. That's why the geography of Genesis 2 doesn't fit in our world (e.g. the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow in the wrong direction). There were two crossings from that world to our world: the first by Cain, who was cast into our world for murdering his brother (that's why Cain had someone to fear and marry after his punishment - he feared the people in our world who were already here when he arrived). The second crossing was by the ark of Noah. After that once-perfect world was destroyed by the Great flood, and after the waters of that flood receded, Noah and the ark were miraculously transported by God into our world. That's why God needed to teach Noah about rainbows (which Noah hadn't seen before he exited the ark), and about animals fearing him (in the perfect world, humans didn't eat animals). That's also why the lifespans of Noah's descendants were so much less than the lifespans of his ancestors - it's much harder to live in our fallen world than it was to live in the once-perfect world.

So in short, Methuselah lived in the 'pre-flood world' - a much nicer place than our world! For more detail, see related link below.

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"When Methuselah had lived 187 years he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died." Gen 5:25-27

He lived to be the oldest person on earth's record, he died sometime before the flood. Lamech went on to be the father of Noah.

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According to tradition, he was an extremely righteous man.

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