Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
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Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
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And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
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And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.
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Passages linked to Genesis 5:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 3:37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
- 1 Chronicles 1:2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat…
Gen 5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
Ver. 9. Enos begat Cainan.] Enos, that is, Sorry-man, begat Cainan, that is, A man of sorrows. Thus the fathers, though long-lived, were not unmindful of their mortality and misery.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all the days or Enos were nine hundred…
And all the days or Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. According to the Arabic writers (n), this man was a very good man, governed his people well, and instructed them in the ways of righteousness, and the fear of God; and when his end drew nigh, his offspring gathered about him for his blessing; and calling them to him, he ordered them by his will to practise holiness, and exhorted them not to mix with the offspring of Cain the murderer; and having appointed Cainan his successor, he died in the year of his age nine hundred and five, A. M. 1340, and was buried in the holy mountain; but according to Bishop Usher it was A. M. 1140.
(n) Elmacinus, apud Hottinger, p. 231.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. Kenan] The first syllable of this name is…
9. Kenan] The first syllable of this name is the same in Hebrew as the name “Cain,” and it is presumably akin in meaning as well as in form (see note on Gen_4:1).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) Enos lived ninety years.—This proves that the years…
(9) Enos lived ninety years.—This proves that the years could not have been mere revolutions of the moon, as some have supposed. So Cainan was only seventy years of age at the birth of his son, and Mahalaleel sixty-five. In the LXX. no patriarch has a son until he is at least 162 years of age, so that the supposition there would be more tenable.
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain From Enos to Jared
From Enos to Jared
v. 9. And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan.
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v. 10. And Enos lived after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
v. 11. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years; and he died. Although there is some distant resemblance between some of the names in this list and those of the Cainites, the meaning which is attached to this fact by enemies of Scriptures as though the two accounts had originally been the same is absolutely without foundation. The children of God and the children of the world at that time were strictly separate.
v. 12. And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel.
v. 13. And Cainan lived, after he begat Mahalaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters.
v. 14. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
v. 15. And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared.
v. 16. And Mahalaleel lived, after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
v. 17. And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died.
v. 18. And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch.
v. 19. And Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
v. 20. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died. The ever recurring circle of birth and death is here brought out with great impressiveness, bidding us so to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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The records in Genesis 5:6-27 have the same format. Translate them according to the notes in Genesis 5:6-8. (See: How to Translate Names and Numbers)
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ninety years
"90 years" (See: Numbers)
815 years
"eight hundred and fifteen years" (See: Numbers)
905 years
"nine hundred and give years" (See: Numbers)
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