Genesis 5:5
וַ יִּהְיוּ כָּל יְמֵי אָדָם אֲשֶׁר חַי תְּשַׁע מֵאֹות שָׁנָה וּ שְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָה וַ יָּמֹת
And they are becoming the whole of the days of Red-one who is Living,209 nine hundred of a duplication and thirty of a duplication, and he is dying.210
| 210 | Death he is dying. The unusual thing about this is that the verb is given to us in the complete/incomplete. Would it not make more sense to use the perfect tense to say “he has died”? Except it is not a complete death that is spoken of here and as such stands apart from “to die, you are dying” in Genesis 2:17 or the perfect tense (have died) which is only found in Gen. 7:22, 19:19, 35:18, 42:38; Num. 14:2; 2 Kin. 2:4; and Eze. 28:8. |