Cainan

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. Also called KENAN
• Son of EnosGenesis 5:9–151 Chronicles 1:2Luke 3:37
• 2. Son of ArphaxadLuke 3:36

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 5:9–15

   When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 5:9–152 voices

   “And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan. According to the Septuagint a hundred and ninety years; it can hardly be thought but that he had sons or daughters before, but this is only taken notice of for a reason before given.

   “For it is the mark of a wise man to separate oneself from the pleasures of the flesh, to elevate the soul, and to withdraw from the body; for this is truly to recognize oneself as a human being. He who is called Enos in the Chaldean language is called, in Latin, homo.

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2. 1 Chronicles 1:2

   Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

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3. Luke 3:36

   the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

   ›Commentary on Luke 3:362 voices

   “The name and generation of Cainan, according to the Hebrew reading, is found neither in Genesis, nor in the Chronicles, (dierum Vulg. verbis.) but Arphaxad is stated to have begot Sala his son, without any one intervening. Know then that Luke borrowed this generation from the Septuagint, where it is written, that Arphaxad at a hundred and thirty-five years old begot Cainan, but he at a hundred and thirty years begot Sala. It follows, Who was the son of Arphaxad.

   “Which was the son of Cainan,....

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4. Luke 3:37

   the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,

   ›Commentary on Luke 3:372 voices

   “Which was the son of Mathusala,.... The same with Methuselah; and so he is called by the Septuagint in Gen 5:25 which was the son of Enoch, Gen 5:21 which was the son of Jared Gen 5:18, which was the son of Maleleel; the same with Mahalaleel; who is also so called by the seventy interpreters, in Gen 5:15 as here; which was the son of Cainan, Gen 5:12.

   “But rightly rising up from the baptized Son of God to God the Father, he places Enoch in the seventy-seventh step, who, having put off death, was translated unto Paradise, that he might signify that those, who by the grace of adoption of sons are born again of water and the Holy Spirit, are in the mean time (after the dissolution of the body) to be received into eternal rest, for the number seventy, because of the seventh of the sabbath, signifies the rest of those who, the grace of God assisting them, have fulfilled the decalogue of the aw.

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