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Lifespans the King James Version states

24 people whose age the KJV writes out in a single verse, in Bible order. Each number is the one in the quoted verse, written in figures. One more age, which the text gives in two steps, is worked out separately at the end.

Ages given in one verse

Adam930 years

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Genesis 5:5
Seth912 years

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

Genesis 5:8
Enos905 years

And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

Genesis 5:11
Cainan910 years

And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

Genesis 5:14
Mahalaleel895 years

And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

Genesis 5:17
Jared962 years

And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

Genesis 5:20
Enoch365 years

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

Genesis 5:23This verse gives his years; the next verse, Genesis 5:24, says "God took him" and does not say he died.
Methuselah969 years

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Genesis 5:27
Lamech777 years

And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Genesis 5:31
Noah950 years

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

Genesis 9:29
Terah205 years

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 11:32
Sarah127 years

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 23:1
Abraham175 years

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

Genesis 25:7
Ishmael137 years

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

Genesis 25:17
Isaac180 years

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

Genesis 35:28
Jacob147 years

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Genesis 47:28The same verse also gives the 17 years he lived in Egypt.
Joseph110 years

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Genesis 50:26
Levi137 years

And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

Exodus 6:16
Kohath133 years

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

Exodus 6:18
Amram137 years

And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

Exodus 6:20
Aaron123 years

And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

Numbers 33:39
Moses120 years

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Deuteronomy 34:7
Joshua110 years

And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

Joshua 24:29
Jehoiada130 years

But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

2 Chronicles 24:15

Worked out from two verses

Shem: 100 + 500 = 600 years (Genesis 11:10 and Genesis 11:11). No single verse gives this total.

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

Genesis 11:10100 years

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:11500 years

Genesis 11:12–25 gives the years of Shem's descendants in the same two steps. They are not worked out on this page.