Genesis 5:23

Enoch lived 365 years altogether in close fellowship with God.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

In Context

22Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for 300 years after Methuselah was born, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

24Then one day he disappeared, because God took him away to be with him in heaven.

Read all of Genesis 5

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:6Even if people could live for 2,000 years, if they do not enjoy the things that God gives to them, it would have been better for them never to have been born. All people who live a long time certainly [RHQ] all go to the same place— to the grave.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:22-25

Translation of Enoch. ( b. c. 3017.) 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 5:23