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Genesis 4:26

A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

  • KJV King James Version

    And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh; then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

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Cross-references (17)

Passages linked to Genesis 4:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.
  • 1 Kings 18:24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.”
  • Joel 2:32 It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
  • Zephaniah 3:9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
  • Genesis 12:8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
  • Genesis 26:25 He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
  • Jeremiah 33:16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”
  • Luke 3:38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
  • Deuteronomy 26:17-18 You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
  • Acts 2:21 It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
  • Acts 11:26 When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
  • Romans 10:13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
  • 1 Corinthians 1:2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
  • Isaiah 44:5 One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”
  • Isaiah 48:1 “Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
  • Isaiah 63:19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
  • Ephesians 3:14-15 For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

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Explain this verse (14 sources)

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 26. Then began men to call upon the name…

26. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. In the verb ‘to call upon,’ there is a synecdochee, for it embraces generally the whole worship of God. But religion is here properly designated by that which forms its principal part. For God prefers this service of piety and faith to all sacrifices, (Psalm 50:14.) Yea, this is the spiritual worship of God which faith produces. This is particularly worthy of notice, because Satan contrives nothing with greater care than to adulterate, with every possible corruption, the pure invocation of God, or to draw us away from the only God to the invocation of creatures. Even from the beginning of the world he has not ceased to move this stone, that miserable men might weary themselves in vain in a preposterous worship of God. But let us know, that the entire pomp of adoration is nothing worth, unless this chief point of worshipping God aright be maintained. Although the passage may be more simply explained to mean, that then the name of God was again celebrated; yet I approve the former sense, because it is more full, contains a useful doctrine, and also agrees with the accustomed phraseology of Scripture. It is a foolish figment, that God then began to be called by other names; since Moses does not here censure depraved superstitions, but commends the piety of one family which worshipped God in purity and holiness, when religions among other people, was polluted or extinct. And there is no doubt, that Adam and Eve, with a few other of their children were themselves true worshippers of God; but closes means, that so great was then the deluge of impiety in the world that religion was rapidly hastening to destruction; because it remained only with a few men, and did not flourish in any one race. We may readily conclude that Seth was an upright and faithful servant of God. And after he begat a son, like himself, and had a rightly constituted family, the face of the Church began distinctly to appear, and that worship of God was set up which might continue to posterity. Such a restoration of religion has been effected also in our time; not that it had been altogether extinct; but there was no certainly defined people who called upon God; and, no sincere profession of faith, no uncorrupted religion could anywhere be discovered. Whence it too evidently appears how great is the propensity of men, either to gross contempt of God, or to superstition; since both evils must then have everywhere prevailed, when Moses relates it as a miracles that there was at that time a single family in which the worship of God arose.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain In these days God began to move the hearts…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Enos properly signifies a miserable man, to note the…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain And to Seth was born a son called Enos,…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. Then began men to call upon the…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 4:26. And to Seth was born a son…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Began to call upon, &c. Not that Adam and…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain men began to call upon the name of the…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. Enosh] This word, used in Hebrew poetry, means…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) He called his name Enos.—Heb., Enosh, that is,…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Then began men to call upon the name of…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Enos i.e. mortal.
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 4:26 Enosh means “humankind.” In the Old Testament, the…

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