Genesis 5 · Verse 23

Genesis 5:23

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Genesis 5:23, King James Version

Genesis 5:23 in other translations

BSBSo Enoch lived a total of 365 years.
WEBAll the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
ASVand all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
YLTAnd all the days of Enoch are three hundred and sixty and five years.
DARBYAnd all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
BBEAnd all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:
WebsterAnd all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

What does Genesis 5:23 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 5:21-24

Enoch was the seventh from Adam. Godliness is walking with God: which shows reconciliation to God, for two cannot walk together except they be agreed, Am 3:3. It includes all the parts of a godly, righteous, and sober life. To walk with God, is to set God always before us, to act as always under his eye. It is constantly to care, in all things to please God, and in nothing to offend him. It is to be followers of him…

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Genesis 5:23 in the original Hebrew

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וַיְהִ֖יvay.Hiand it wasH1961
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
יְמֵ֣יye.Mei[the] days ofH3117
חֲנ֑וֹךְcha.NokhEnochH2585
חָמֵ֤שׁcha.MeshfiveH2568
וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ve.shi.Shimand sixtyH8346
שָׁנָ֔הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141
וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁu.she.Loshand threeH7969
מֵא֖וֹתme.'othundred<s>H3967
שָׁנָֽה\׃sha.Nahyear[s]H8141

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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Context

  • Genesis 5:22

    And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Genesis 5:23

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

  • Genesis 5:24

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

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Genesis 5:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y fueron todos los días de Henoch trescientos sesenta y cinco años.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et tous les jours de Hénoc furent 365 ans.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und alle Tage Henochs waren 365 Jahre.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et facti sunt omnes dies Henoch trecenti sexaginta quinque anni.