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Methuselah comforts Lamech beside the wrapped infant Noah and his mother as rain clears around a new green shoot outside.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 107

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 107 — Methuselah returns with Enoch’s assurance that Noah is truly Lamech’s son and will comfort the earth after destruction.

About this illustration

The intimate family scene distinguishes this confirmation from chapter 106’s alarm; one wrapped infant and a rain-washed shoot foreshadow preservation without showing the flood.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 107:1–3
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good comes upon it.
  2. 2And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that (this) is no lie.’
  3. 3And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father Enoch—for he had shown to him everything in secret—he returned and showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.

R. H. Charles translation (1912) · Reprinted 1917 · Public domain in the United States · Editorial brackets and uncertainty markers preserved · Source edition