Genesis 5:24
“And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 5Meaning
Enoch is again described as walking with God, and his disappearance is attributed to God taking him rather than to the chapter's normal death formula.
Read carefully
Genesis leaves the mechanics of Enoch's taking unexplained. Later biblical interpretation is important, but this verse itself is strikingly concise.
Reflection
Enoch's ending interrupts the genealogy's repeated death refrain and makes communion with God the defining feature of his remembered life.