Genesis 4:17

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

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  • Gen 5:18 : 18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
  • Gen 5:22 : 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
  • 2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
  • Ps 49:11 : 11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
  • Eccl 2:4-9 : 4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: 5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: 6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: 7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: 8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. 9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. 10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
  • Luke 17:28-29 : 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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  • Gen 4:1-3
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    1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

    2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

    3And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

  • Gen 4:15-16
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    15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

    16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  • Gen 4:24-26
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    24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

    25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

    26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

  • Gen 4:18-19
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    18And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

    19And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

  • Gen 5:9-10
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    9And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

    10And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Gen 5:21-22
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    21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

    22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Gen 4:8
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    8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

  • Gen 5:12-13
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    12And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

    13And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Gen 5:3-4
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    3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

    4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

  • 1 Chr 1:3
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    3Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

  • Gen 5:18-19
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    18And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

    19And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Luke 3:37
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    37Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,

  • Gen 5:6-7
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    6And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:

    7And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Gen 3:20
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    20And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

  • Gen 6:1-2
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    1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

    2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.