Genesis 5:24
New International Version
Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

New Living Translation
walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.

English Standard Version
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

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

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

New King James Version
And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

New American Standard Bible
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

NASB 1995
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

NASB 1977
And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Amplified Bible
And [in reverent fear and obedience] Enoch walked with God; and he was not [found among men], because God took him [away to be home with Him].

Christian Standard Bible
Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Khenok pleased God, and he was not, because God took him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Enoch walked with God; then he was gone because God took him.

Good News Translation
He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.

International Standard Version
communing with God—and then he was there no longer, because God had taken him.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him.

Literal Standard Version
And Enoch habitually walks with God, and he is not, for God has taken him.

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

New American Bible
Enoch walked with God, and he was no longer here, for God took him.

NET Bible
Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

New Revised Standard Version
Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him.

New Heart English Bible
Hanoch walked with God, and then he was not there, for God took him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not: for God took him.

World English Bible
Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Young's Literal Translation
And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him.

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Context
God Takes Up Enoch
23So Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

Cross References
Hebrews 11:5
By 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.

Jude 1:14
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: "Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

Genesis 5:23
So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

Genesis 5:25
When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 24:40
And 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.

2 Kings 2:1
Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,


Treasury of Scripture

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

walked.

Genesis 5:21
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

he was not.

Genesis 37:30
And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

Jeremiah 31:15
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

for.

2 Kings 2:11
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Luke 23:43
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

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…

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Genesis 5
1. Recapitulation of the creation of man.
3. The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah.
22. Enoch's godliness and translation into Heaven.
25. The family line of Methuselah to Noah and his sons














(24) Enoch walked with God.--This is translated in the LXX., "Enoch pleased God," whence comes the "testimony" quoted in Hebrews 11:5. Really it gives the cause of which the Greek phrase is the effect; for it denotes a steady continuance in well-doing, and a life spent in the immediate presence of and in constant communion with God. (See Note on Genesis 4:18.)

God took him.--Instead of the mournful refrain and he died, coming like a surprise at the end of each of these protracted lives, we have here an early removal into another world, suggesting already that long life was not the highest form of blessing; and this removal is without pain, decay, or death into the immediate presence of God. Thus one of Adam's posterity after the fall succeeded in doing, though, doubtless, not without special help and blessing from the Almighty, that wherein Adam in Paradise had failed. We learn, too, from Jude 1:14-15, that Enoch's was a removal from prevailing evil to happiness secured. Already, probably, the intermarriages between the Cainites and Sethites had begun and with it the corruption of mankind. Philippson, while regarding the phrase "God took him" as a euphemism for an early death, yet finds in it an indication of there being another life besides this upon earth. We may further add that Enoch's translation took place about the middle of the antediluvian period, and that his age was 365, the number of the days of the year. As, however, the Hebrew year consisted of only 354 days, and the Chaldean of 360, the conclusion that Enoch was a solar deity has no solid foundation to rest upon. But see Note on Genesis 8:14.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Enoch
חֲנ֖וֹךְ (ḥă·nō·wḵ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2585: Enoch -- four Israelites, sons of Cain, Jered, Midian and Reuben

walked
וַיִּתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ (way·yiṯ·hal·lêḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

God,
הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

and then he [was] no more,
וְאֵינֶ֕נּוּ (wə·’ê·nen·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb | third person masculine singular
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

because
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

God
אֱלֹהִֽים׃ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

had taken
לָקַ֥ח (lā·qaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

him {away}.
אֹת֖וֹ (’ō·ṯōw)
Direct object marker | third person masculine singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case


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