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In the Book of Genesis, Enoch or Hanoch (חֲנוֹךְ "Initiated; dedicated; disciplined", Standard Hebrew Ḥanoḫ, Tiberian Hebrew ḤănĂ´ḵ) is a title shared out by deuce souls known as in the Genealogies of Genesis and subsequent Jewish, Christian, and Islamic writers.

a number one was the boy of Cain and father of Irad. Cain late founded the city which he known as Enoch (Genesis 4:17-18). a 2nd was the boy of Jared, father of Methuselah, grandfather of Lamech and the swell-grandfather of Noah.

Life of Enoch, son of Jared
Based on data from Genesis 5:23-Two dozen, Enoch was the upright human, walked by using God, lived 365 years, so was taken by God forgoing death. In the Book of Enoch he was called a Scribe of Righteousness by God.

Bar-Hebraeus wrote: In the New Testament, Jude quotes Enoch as prophesying the Day of Judgement.

In the Quran, the prophet Enoch is referred to as Idris, and described when follows: Around Islam, Idris (Enoch) is besides revered when a number 1 human to exist as taught literature & writing by God.

Based on data from a LDS Church's Pearl of Great Price, this Enoch founded the righteous city of Zion in a super wicked globe. He & a entire city's denizen were "translated" (meaning he would non taste of demise - changed from either the Telestial state to a Celestial state) by God and vanished from either a presence of a globe prior to the Great Flood. Methuselah and his family (including Noah) were left behind so that righteous humans can however people a globe.

Based on data from a Hebrew pseudepigraphical apocryphal Book of Enoch, God took Enoch and transformed him into a angel Metatron.

Based on data from occasionally traditions Enoch, existence a Scribe of God, is however alive & has been recording a history of the Globe for God since he was innate.


--- Henoch was likewise the title of a fictional character in the Star Trek episode Return to Tomorrow, in which non-corporeal aliens require above members of the bridge crew. Henoch took over Mr. Spock.
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LDS Sources: Enoch
Summary of the Israelite forefather's importance to Mormon thought.

Enoch
Passages about the grandson of Adam from the King James version of the Bible.

Prophet Enoch (Idris)
The traditional Muslim view of the Biblical grandson of Adam.

Enoch
Profile of Adam's grandson from a joint Lutheran and Catholic bible study project.

Jewish Encyclopedia: Enoch
Overview of the grandson of Adam and Eve from the traditional Jewish perspective, including rabbinic commentary.

Books of Enoch
Synopsis of Ethiopian and Slavonic apocrypha about the Biblical forefather.

Catholic Encyclopedia: Henoch
Commentary on the grandson of Adam from the traditional Catholic perspective.

Idris the Prophet of Islam?
Essay theorizing that the Koranic prophet Idris is not the Biblical Enoch, but rather the Egyptian Osiris.


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