According to the Old Testament, how many years did Methuselah live?

According to the Old Testament, Methuselah lived 969 years.

Genesis 5:27 gives Methuselah’s age as 969 years, making him the longest-lived person named in the Bible. He is part of the genealogy from Adam to Noah and is described as the son of Enoch and the grandfather of Noah.

Methuselah appears only briefly in Genesis, so the text provides far less narrative about him than about Noah, Abraham, or Moses. His exceptional age belongs to the long lifespans recorded for figures in Genesis before and around the Flood narrative. These ages are a distinctive feature of the book’s early genealogies.

A frequent mistake is saying Methuselah was Noah’s father; Genesis identifies Lamech as Noah’s father. Another mix-up concerns Enoch: Enoch is Methuselah’s father and is said to have lived 365 years. Methuselah’s 969 years therefore stand as a specific genealogical figure, not a general age assigned to the patriarchs.