Genesis 4:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And Cain's wife [one of Adam's offspring] became pregnant and bore Enoch; and Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Cain knew his wife intimately. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city and named the city after his son Enoch.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Then Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And he built a city, and he called its name by the name of his son, Enoch.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.

Genesis 4:17 Cross References

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 4:16

And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Genesis 4:18

And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methushael: and Methushael begat Lamech.

Genesis 5:18

And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch:

Genesis 5:22

and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his life time had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called Absalom's monument, unto this day.

Psalm 49:11

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, And their dwelling places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

Psalm 49:12

But man abideth not in honour: He is like the beasts that perish.

Daniel 4:30

The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?