Enoch

Father
Jared, son of Mahalaleel
Children
Methuselah
Elisha (Book of Jasher)
Elimelech (Book of Jasher)
Melca (Book of Jasher)
Nahmah (Book of Jasher)

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Brief description of the City of Enoch.
Enoch is born. He is taught righteousness by his father. God speaks to him. He preaches to the people.
Enoch establishes the city of Enoch. He sees the flood, the coming of Christ, the restoration, and the second coming.
1) And all the days of Enoch were four hundred and thirty years.
2) And it came to pass that Methuselah, the son of Enoch, was not taken, that the covenants of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he made to Enoch; for he truly covenanted with Enoch that Noah should be of the fruit of his loins.
19) And the Lord ordained Noah after his own order, and commanded him that he should go forth and declare his Gospel unto the children of men, even as it was given unto Enoch.
18) And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19) And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
20) And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
21) And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22) And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23) And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24) And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Oaths made to Enoch regarding the power of his order of the priesthood.
37) And Mahlallel the son of Cainan lived sixty-five years and he begat Jared; and Jared lived sixty-two years and he begat Enoch.
1) And Enoch lived sixty-five years and he begat Methuselah; and Enoch walked with God after having begot Methuselah, and he served the Lord, and despised the evil ways of men.
Enoch is visited by an angel and called on a mission to teach God's words.
He rules over the sons of men and establishes peace in all the earth.
13) And these are the generations of Enoch, Methuselah, Elisha, and Elimelech, three sons; and their sisters were Melca and Nahmah, and Methuselah lived eighty-seven years and he begat Lamech.
14) And it was in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Lamech when Adam died; nine hundred and thirty years old was he at his death, and his two sons, with Enoch and Methuselah his son, buried him with great pomp, as at the burial of kings, in the cave which God had told him.
15) And in that place all the sons of men made a great mourning and weeping on account of Adam; it has therefore been a custom among the sons of men to this day.
16) And Adam died because he ate of the tree of knowledge; he and his children after him, as the Lord God had spoken.
17) And it was in the year of Adam's death which was the two hundred and forty-third year of the reign of Enoch, in that time Enoch resolved to separate himself from the sons of men and to secrete himself as at first in order to serve
Enoch starts to spend 3 days in 4 alone and away from people, then eventually 6 in 7, then he would only appear once a month, then once a year, until the people stopped seeing him altogether for a very long time.
Enoch returns and teaches the people a couple more times, before he is taken up to heaven. Many people follow him, and they disappear from all knowledge.
1) And all the days that Enoch lived upon earth, were three hundred and sixty-five years.
2) And when Enoch had ascended into heaven, all the kings of the earth rose and took Methuselah his son and anointed him, and they caused him to reign over them in the place of his father.
3) And Methuselah acted uprightly in the sight of God, as his father Enoch had taught him, and he likewise during the whole of his life taught the sons of men wisdom, knowledge and the fear of God, and he did not turn from the good way either to the right or to the left.
37:1) The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom -which Enoch the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,
37:2) the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, saw.

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