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Genesis 5:24 KJV

Genesis · chapter 5 · verse 24

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.Genesis 5:24 · King James Version

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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.

25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

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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

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Key words (Strong's)

walkedhâlakto walkH1980 →
EnochChănôwkChanok, an antediluvian patriachH2585 →
Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →

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