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Enoch and Noah
How Enoch and Noah are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Enoch was an ancestor of Noah.
Enoch was Noah's great-grandfather, through Methuselah and Lamech. Genesis says of each man that he "walked with God."
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah
Genesis 5:21, King James Version
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech
Genesis 5:25, King James Version
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son
Genesis 5:28, King James Version
And he called his name Noah
Genesis 5:29, King James Version
Noah walked with God
Genesis 6:9, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 5:21-29
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 5:21-29
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.
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:
27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
28And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
Genesis 6:9
9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
King James Version