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The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God. The text reads that Enoch "walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him" (Gen 5:21–24), which is interpreted as Enoch entering heaven alive in some Jewish and Christian traditions, and interpreted differently in others.
The following is taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible: When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah. Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
Genesis 5:24 says "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, for God took him," but it does not state whether he was alive or dead nor where God took him. The Books of Kings describes the prophet Elijah being taken towards the heavens ( Hebrew : שָׁמַיִם , romanized : šāmayim ) in a whirlwind, but the word can mean either heaven ...
Enos was the father of Kenan, who was born when Enos was 90 years old [5] (or 190 years, according to the Septuagint). According to the Bible, Enos died at the age of 905, when Noah was aged 84 (as per Masoretic chronology).
A short section of 1 Enoch is cited in the New Testament Epistle of Jude, Jude 1:14–15, and attributed there to "Enoch the Seventh from Adam" (1 Enoch 60:8), although this section of 1 Enoch is a midrash on Deuteronomy 33:2, which was written long after the supposed time of Enoch.
After the birth of Enoch, the Hebrew text of Genesis 4:17 is unclear. Either Cain built a city and named it after the mighty Enoch, or else Enoch built a city. [1] In the King James Bible, the text makes it clear that Cain built the city and named it after his son. According to the Book of Jubilees 4:9, Enoch's mother/aunt was named Awan.
The King James Version" is found, unequivocally used as a name, in a letter from 1855. [31] The next year King James Bible, with no possessive, appears as a name in a Scottish source. [32] In the United States, the "1611 translation" (actually editions following the standard text of 1769, see below) is generally known as the King James Version ...
Of those children, only Enoch is named specifically, born when Jared was 162 years old (Genesis 5:18, 5:22a, 5:24, Hebrews 11:5b, Jude 14–15). Enoch went on to marry Edna, according to Jubilees , and the sole named grandchild of Jared is Enoch's son Methuselah , the longest-living human mentioned in the Bible who lived 969 years.(Genesis 5:27 ...