Genesis 5:23

and all the days, &c. Concerning Enoch the following points deserve attention: (1) He is the seventh in the genealogy, cf. Judges 1:14; (2) by comparison with the lives of his fathers and descendants, the length of his life is immensely curtailed; (3) the number of his years agrees with the number of days in the solar year; (4) owing to the closeness of his walk with God he was believed to have been "translated" into Heaven. With this summary must be compared the account of the seventhking in the antediluvian Babylonian Dynasty, Enmeduranki by name, who received revelations from the Sun-god Samas, and was the builder of the town of Sippar, which was dedicated to the Sun-god.