Genesis 5:24 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 5:24

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

KJV

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YLT

And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him.

ASV

and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

WEB

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

DBT

And Enoch walked withGod; and he was not, forGod took him.

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Old Testament

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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24 verses on the floor

Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Hebrews 11:5–6
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

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Executing the priest's office is called walking before God, 1 Sam. ii. 30, 35 , and see Zech. iii. Enoch, it should seem, was a priest of the most high God, and like Noah, who is likewise said to walk with God, he was a preacher of righteousness, and prophesied of Christ's second coming.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

21 ), but Shem is put first because on him the covenant was entailed, as appears by ch. ix. 26 , where God is called the Lord God of Shem. To him, it is probable, the birth-right was given, and from him, it is certain, both Christ the head, and the church the body, were to descend.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Quotation Hebrews 11:5
Enoch's walk with God and translation is Hebrews' second witness of faith: 'before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.'
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)

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