language · Gen 5:21–24 · ✓ Approved

LXX Gen 5:21–24: Enoch “pleased God” and “was not found”

Says At 5:22 and 5:24 Swete has εὐηρέστησεν … Ἑνὼχ τῷ θεῷ where the MT has וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ חֲנוֹךְ אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים (wayyithallekh hanokh et-ha'elohim). εὐαρεστέω (euaresteō) is “to be well pleasing”; Abbott-Smith notes that the LXX uses it chiefly for this verb of walking, citing Gen 5:22 and 5:24.

Says 5:24 reads καὶ οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο, διότι μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεός for וְאֵינֶנּוּ כִּי־לָקַח אֹתוֹ אֱלֹהִים. εὑρίσκω (heuriskō) is “to find”, and with οὐχ in the passive it is used of disappearance; μετατίθημι (metatithēmi) is “to transfer to another place”, here for לָקַח (laqah).

Says 5:22 gives the remaining years as διακόσια (MT 300), and 5:23 totals τριακόσια ἑξήκοντα πέντε, as the MT; like the MT, 5:23 has no καὶ ἀπέθανεν. Swete’s apparatus records καὶ ἔζησεν Ἑνώχ for the Bodleian Genesis at 5:22, and, at 5:24, ὅτι for διότι, which Swete infers for the Cotton Genesis from the silence of its collation.

Says Heb 11:5 has the same clause, οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο διότι μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεός, and says Enoch εὐαρεστηκέναι τῷ θεῷ; see note.cross-reference.Gen.5.1-Gen.5.32.nt-texts-form.

Uncertain No lean is taken on the manner of Enoch’s taking beyond what 5:24 and Heb 11:5 say, or on what “walked with God” meant in practice.

Claims

SaysAt 5:22 and 5:24 Swete has εὐηρέστησεν … Ἑνὼχ τῷ θεῷ where the MT has וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ חֲנוֹךְ אֶת־הָאֱלֹהִים.
Says5:24 reads καὶ οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο, διότι μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεός for וְאֵינֶנּוּ כִּי־לָקַח אֹתוֹ אֱלֹהִים; μετατίθημι renders לָקַח.
Says5:22 has διακόσια (MT 300), 5:23 totals 365 with no καὶ ἀπέθανεν, as the MT; Swete’s apparatus records καὶ ἔζησεν Ἑνώχ for the Bodleian Genesis at 5:22 and ὅτι for διότι at 5:24, inferred for the Cotton Genesis from the silence of its collation.
SaysHeb 11:5 has οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο διότι μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεός and εὐαρεστηκέναι τῷ θεῷ.
UncertainNo lean is taken on the manner of Enoch’s taking beyond what 5:24 and Heb 11:5 say, or on what “walked with God” meant in practice.

Citations

LXX (Swete) CC BY-SA 4.0 Gen 5:21–24, vol. 1, p. 8 (oldtestamentingr01swetuoft, viewer leaf n39), text and apparatus; read on the page images
OSHB CC BY 4.0 Gen 5:21–24 (WLC/OSHB)
SBLGNT CC BY 4.0 Heb 11:5
Abbott-Smith public domain s.vv. εὐαρεστέω (to be well pleasing; LXX Gen 5:22, 24), εὑρίσκω (to find; passive with negative, of disappearance, Heb 11:5), μετατίθημι (to transfer to another place; LXX Gen 5:24 for לָקַח); paraphrased

Sources LXX (Swete) CC BY-SA 4.0 OSHB CC BY 4.0 SBLGNT CC BY 4.0 Abbott-Smith public domain Bible Scholarship & Tool CC BY 4.0

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2026-11-10

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