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Genesis 5:22 KJV

Genesis · chapter 5 · verse 22

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:Genesis 5:22 · King James Version

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Genesis 5:22 in context

20And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

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Commentary

The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be passed over so, of whom special notice must be taken, and that is Enoch, the seventh from Adam: the rest, we may suppose, did virtuously, but…

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-24

Cross references

1 Thessalonians 2:12

Key words (Strong's)

MethuselahMᵉthûwshelachMethushelach, an antediluvian patriarchH4968 →
hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
walkedhâlakto walkH1980 →
EnochChănôwkChanok, an antediluvian patriachH2585 →
afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
begatyâladto bear youngH3205 →

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Bible verses about Enoch

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