All the days of Adam were nine hundred and thirty years The long lives of men in ancient times, here recorded, are also mentioned by heathen authors. And it was wisely so ordered, both for the greater increase of mankind, and the more speedy replenishing of the earth in the first ages of the world, and for the more effectual preservation and propagation of true religion and other useful knowledge, which, before the invention of letters, could only be conveyed by the channel of tradition.
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Genesis 5:5
5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.