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| - Cainan, (also Kenan) was the son of Enosh and the grandson of Seth, making him a Sethite. When he was 70 years old his wife gave birth to Mahalalel. He would live to be 910 years old.
- Cainan can refer to either:
* A variant of the name Kenan in the generations of Adam, the lists of antediluvian patriarchs given in the Torah;
* Cainan, the son of the Arpachshad mentioned in most manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke 3:36. This reference to Cainan is present in the Septuagint and Samaritan versions of the Book of Genesis, as well as in the Book of Jubilees; however, the early Christian apologists Irenaeus and Eusebius believed it to be an error, as do many modern interpreters, mainly on the basis of his omission from the Masoretic (Hebrew) version.
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| - Cainan can refer to either:
* A variant of the name Kenan in the generations of Adam, the lists of antediluvian patriarchs given in the Torah;
* Cainan, the son of the Arpachshad mentioned in most manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke 3:36. This reference to Cainan is present in the Septuagint and Samaritan versions of the Book of Genesis, as well as in the Book of Jubilees; however, the early Christian apologists Irenaeus and Eusebius believed it to be an error, as do many modern interpreters, mainly on the basis of his omission from the Masoretic (Hebrew) version. According to the Book of Jubilees, Cainan was taught to read by his father, and he found, carved on the rocks by former generations, an inscription preserving the science of astrology as taught by the Watchers, who had rebelled from God before the deluge. He is also stated to have married a daughter of Madai named Milcah. The Sefer ha-Yashar describes Cainan, the possessor of great astrological wisdom, which had been inscribed on tables of stone, as the son of Seth and not of Arpachshad; i.e., the antediluvian Kenan. In The Patriarchal Age: or, the History and Religion of Mankind (1854), George Smith writes: "It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the omission of the name of Cainan from the Hebrew text, and the consequent general rejection of him by historians, there are more traditions preserved of him than of his son Salah. 'The Alexandrine Chronicle derives the Samaritans from Cainan*; Eustachius Antiochenus, the Saggodians; George Syncellus, the Gaspheni; Epiphanius the Cajani. Besides the particulars already mentioned, it is said Cainan was the first after the flood who invented astronomy, and that his sons made a god of him, and worshiped his image after his death. The founding of the city of Harran in Mesopotamia is also attributed to him; which, it is pretended, is so called from a son he had of that name.' -Anc. Univ. Hist., vol. i, p. 96, note." (* What the Latin Alexandrine Chronicle actually says is that "those who live east of the Sarmatians" were derived from Cainan) Cainan (Hebrew: קֵינָן, Qeinan; "possession, metalsmith," or more likely "sorrow, dirge, elegy") (325 AM-1235 AM, or 3769 BC-2769 BC) was the son of Enos and the father of Mahalaleel. He was born when Enos was 90 years old, in 325 AM. Cainan had a son, Mahalalel, at age 70 (395 AM), and died at the age of 910, in 1235 AM And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel: And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. Genesis 5:12-14 (KJV)
- Cainan, (also Kenan) was the son of Enosh and the grandson of Seth, making him a Sethite. When he was 70 years old his wife gave birth to Mahalalel. He would live to be 910 years old.
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