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And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:22 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
  • KJV And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • NKJV After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
  • NASB Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
  • NLT After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

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Quick answer

After Methuselah's birth Enoch walks with God for 300 years and fathers other children. It commends Enoch's life of close fellowship with God.

Overview

Unlike the bare entries around it, this verse highlights that Enoch walked with God, a phrase denoting intimate, faithful communion. His godly life amid a sinful world models the faith Hebrews 11:5 commends. Enoch shows that even in a fallen age it is possible to live in close fellowship with God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 36

  • 1 Th 2:12encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
  • Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
  • Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
  • Mal 2:6True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
  • Gen 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
  • 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
  • Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Ps 116:9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
  • Lev 26:12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
  • Heb 11:5–6By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
  • Col 1:10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
  • 1 Th 4:1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
  • Gen 24:40And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
  • Gen 48:15Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
  • Eph 5:15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
  • Deut 28:9The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
  • Hos 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Exod 16:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
  • Col 4:5Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
  • Deut 5:33You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
  • Ps 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
  • Ps 128:1A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
  • Ps 26:11But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
  • Ps 86:11Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
  • Deut 13:4You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
  • Amos 3:3Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?
  • Mic 4:5Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
  • 1 Kgs 2:4and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
  • Acts 9:31Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
  • Song 1:4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
  • Ps 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
  • Rom 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
  • 1 Cor 7:17Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.

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