Genesis 5:23

Genesis 5:23

 

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

 

a. NLT: Enoch lived 365 years, [Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.]

b. ASV: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: [Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.]

 

c. YLT: And all the days of Enoch are three hundred and sixty and five years. [The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.]

 

d. Amplified Bible: So all the days of Enoch were 365 years. [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation]

 

e. Stone Edition CHUMASH, Rabbinic Commentary: All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty five years. [The Artscroll Series/Stone Edition, THE CHUMASH; Copyright 1998, 2000 by Mesorah Publications, Ldt.]

 

1. “And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:”

 

a. And all the days [3117 * yowm] [Strong: from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb):--age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.]

 

b. Enoch [2585 * Chanowk] [Strong: from 2596; initiated; Chanok, an antediluvian patriach:--Enoch.]

 

c. were three [7969 * shalowsh] [Strong: masculine shlowshah {shel-o-shaw'}; or shloshah {shel-o-shaw'}; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multipl.) thrice:--+ fork, + often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, + thrice.]

 

d. hundred [3967 * me’ah] [Strong: properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction:--hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.]

 

e. sixty [8346 * shisshiym] [Strong: multiple of 8337; sixty:--sixty, three score.]

 

f. five [2568 * chamesh] [Strong: masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}; a primitive numeral; five:--fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).]

 

g. years [8141 * shnah] [Strong: from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time):--+ whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).]

1). When the years of the genealogy from Adam to the Flood are added up, it totals 1656 years. Since the flood came on the 600th year of Noah’s life Genesis 6:11, we know Noah was born 1056 years after Creation.