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After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:22 · New King James Version
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:
  • BSB And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other 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 2:12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
  • Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
  • Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
  • Mal 2:6The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
  • Gen 6:9This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. 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 Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
  • Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Ps 116:9I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
  • Lev 26:12I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
  • Heb 11:5–6By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
  • Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
  • Gen 24:40He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.
  • Gen 48:15He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
  • Eph 5:15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
  • Deut 28:9Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
  • Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Exod 16:4Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
  • Col 4:5Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
  • Deut 5:33You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
  • Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  • Ps 128:1A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
  • Ps 26:11But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
  • Ps 86:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
  • Deut 13:4You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.
  • Amos 3:3Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?
  • Mic 4:5Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
  • 1 Kgs 2:4Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’
  • Acts 9:31So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
  • Song 1:4Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
  • Ps 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
  • Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 6:16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
  • 1 Cor 7:17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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