Genesis 45:22

45:22 He gave sets of clothes to each one of them, ¹  but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothes. ² 

Genesis 45:2

45:2 He wept loudly; ³  the Egyptians heard it and Pharaoh’s household heard about it. ⁴ 

Genesis 5:5

5:5 The entire lifetime ⁵  of Adam was 930 years, and then he died. ⁶ 

Genesis 5:22

5:22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God ⁷  for 300 years, ⁸  and he had other ⁹  sons and daughters.

Matthew 6:19

Lasting Treasure

6:19 “Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth ¹⁰  and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

James 5:2

5:2 Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

¹ tn Heb “to all of them he gave, to each one, changes of outer garments.”

² tn Heb “changes of outer garments.”

³ tn Heb “and he gave his voice in weeping,” meaning that Joseph could not restrain himself and wept out loud.

⁴ tn Heb “and the Egyptians heard and the household of Pharaoh heard.” Presumably in the latter case this was by means of a report.

⁵ tn Heb “all the days of Adam which he lived”

⁶ sn The genealogy traces the line from Adam to Noah and forms a bridge between the earlier accounts and the flood story. Its constant theme of the reign of death in the human race is broken once with the account of Enoch, but the genealogy ends with hope for the future through Noah. See further G. F. Hasel, “The Genealogies of Gen. 5 and 11 and their Alleged Babylonian Background,” AUSS 16 (1978): 361-74; idem, “Genesis 5 and 11,” Origins 7 (1980): 23-37.

⁷ sn With the seventh panel there is a digression from the pattern. Instead of simply saying that Enoch lived, the text observes that he “walked with God.” The rare expression “walked with” (the Hitpael form of the verb הָלָךְ, halakh, “to walk” collocated with the preposition אֶת, ’et, “with”) is used in 1 Sam 25:15 to describe how David’s men maintained a cordial and cooperative relationship with Nabal’s men as they worked and lived side by side in the fields. In Gen 5:22 the phrase suggests that Enoch and God “got along.” This may imply that Enoch lived in close fellowship with God, leading a life of devotion and piety. An early Jewish tradition, preserved in 1 En. 1:9 and alluded to in Jude 14, says that Enoch preached about the coming judgment. See F. S. Parnham, “Walking with God,” EvQ 46 (1974): 117-18.

⁸ tn Heb “and Enoch walked with God, after he became the father of Methuselah, [for] 300 years.”

⁹ tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰ tn The term σής (shs) refers to moths in general. It is specifically the larvae of moths that destroy clothing by eating holes in it (L&N 4.49; BDAG 922 s.v.). See Jas 5:2, which mentions “moth-eaten” clothing.