Noah dies at 950 years old — the third-longest life in Scripture, after Methuselah (969) and Jared (962). His death is recorded with the same formula as the Genesis 5 genealogy: he lived and he died. Despite walking with God, despite being preserved through the flood, despite being the father of all post-flood humanity, Noah's death is told in the same plain terms as every other in the genealogy. The formula equalizes. Romans 5:12 reminds us that death spread to all people because all sinned — Noah's death is the continued evidence of that. But 1 Corinthians 15:22 holds the reversal: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. Noah's death is not the end of the story; the genealogy of Genesis 5, the covenant of Genesis 9, and the death notice of Genesis 9:29 all point forward to the one who broke the formula completely — not by walking with God and being taken, like Enoch, but by dying and rising, like no one before or after him.

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