And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Ver. 13. And begat sons and daughters.] Everything is generative of itself, says the philosopher. a And, that man is unworthy to be born, of whom another is not born, says the orator.
a Propriissimum opus viventis est, generare sibi simile. - Arist .