In the
Book of Genesis,
Enoch is a named shared by two individuals.
- The first was the son of Cain. Cain later founded a city which he named Enoch.
- The second was the father of Methuselah and the grandfather of Noah. Genesis 5:24 tels us, "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away". According to the Hebrew Book of Enoch[?], God took Enoch and transformed him into the angel Metatron. In the new testament Jude[?] quotes Enoch as prophesying a day of judgement.