speech: for [1] I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.
24 Seven-fold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seven times seven-fold.
25 Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew.
26 But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos, this man [2] began to call upon the name of the Lord.
CHAP. V.
The genealogy, age, and death of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Noe. The translation of Henoch.
This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.
2 He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years; and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.
4 And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters.
5 And all the time that Adam lived, came to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
6 Seth also lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enos.
7 And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.
10 After whose birth he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters,
11 And all the days of E-
- ↑ Ver. 23. I have slain a man, &c. ’Tis the tradition of the Hebrews, that Lamech in hunting slew Cain, mistaking him for a wild beast: and that having discovered what he had done, he beat so unmercifully the youth, by whom he was led into that mistake, that he died of the blows.
- ↑ Ver. 26. Began to call upon, &c. Not that Adam and Seth had not called upon God, before the birth of Enos: but that Enos used more solemnity in the worship and invocation of God.
