Enoch Walks with God

The words

1. Adam

   Genesis begins this family record with Adam, then names Seth as the son born in his likeness and image.

   Genesis 5:1–3 (opens a new tab)

2. Begat

   An older past tense of beget: to father a child.

   This repeated verb marks a parent-child link: Enoch begat Methuselah, just as Jared begat Enoch in the preceding generation.

   Genesis 5:18 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:21 (opens a new tab) · Webster’s 1828: beget (opens a new tab)

3. Cainan

   Cainan stands between Enos and Mahalaleel in the family line; Genesis gives his age as 70 when Mahalaleel is born.

   Did you know?

   In 1 Chronicles, the same family sequence has the spelling Kenan between Enosh and Mahalaleel, rather than the Cainan of Genesis.

   Genesis 5:9 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:12 (opens a new tab) · 1 Chronicles 1:1–2 (opens a new tab)

4. Enoch

   Enoch is Jared’s son and Methuselah’s father. Genesis distinguishes him by saying that he walked with God and God took him.

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   Jude calls Enoch the seventh from Adam, placing him in the family line that Genesis traces from Adam through Seth.

   Genesis 5:18 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:21–24 (opens a new tab) · Jude 1:14 (opens a new tab)

5. Generations

   The chapter opens as a record of Adam’s generations, tracing the family through Seth and ending with Noah’s three sons.

   Did you know?

   Genesis uses generations beyond family lists: chapter 2 introduces the account of the heavens and the earth with the same English word.

   Genesis 5:1–3 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:32 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 2:4 (opens a new tab)

6. Jared

   Jared links Mahalaleel to Enoch in the genealogy: his father is Mahalaleel, and his named son is Enoch.

   Genesis 5:15 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:18 (opens a new tab)

7. Lamech

   Lamech is Methuselah’s son and Noah’s father; when he names Noah, he speaks of comfort from work on the cursed ground.

   Did you know?

   The earlier genealogy in Genesis 4 also has a Lamech, but names his father Methusael; this one names Methuselah.

   Genesis 5:25 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:28–29 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 4:18 (opens a new tab)

8. Likeness

   Genesis opens by saying God made man in his likeness; Adam later fathers Seth in his own likeness and image.

   Genesis 5:1 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:3 (opens a new tab)

9. Lived

   For Adam, the chapter separates years before Seth’s birth from years afterward, then gives the total and records his death.

   Genesis 5:3–5 (opens a new tab)

10. Mahalaleel

    Genesis names Mahalaleel as Cainan’s son and Jared’s father, giving him a place between those two generations of the family.

    Genesis 5:12 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:15 (opens a new tab)

11. Methuselah

    Genesis gives Enoch’s son Methuselah a lifespan of 969 years and names him as Lamech’s father.

    Genesis 5:21 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:25–27 (opens a new tab)

12. Seth

    Seth carries the family line from Adam to Enos; Genesis gives Adam’s age as 130 when Seth is born.

    Genesis 5:3 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:6 (opens a new tab)

13. Taken

    Hebrews says Enoch was taken so that he would not see death, and connects this with his having pleased God.

    Genesis 5:24 (opens a new tab) · Hebrews 11:5 (opens a new tab)

14. Walked

    Genesis repeats that Enoch walked with God, first describing the years after Methuselah’s birth and then the moment God took him.

    Did you know?

    The next chapter uses the same expression for Noah, saying that he walked with God before giving the ark’s construction instructions.

    Genesis 5:22 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 5:24 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 6:9 (opens a new tab)

15. Years

    Genesis gives Enoch 65 years before Methuselah’s birth and 300 afterward, making the stated total of 365 years.

    Genesis 5:21–23 (opens a new tab)