Genesis 4:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

Genesis 4:16

Cain then left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Descendants of Cain and Seth.

Genesis 4:18

To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael; Mehujael became the father of Methusael, and Methusael became the father of Lamech.

Genesis 5:18

When Jared was one hundred and sixty-two years old, he begot Enoch.

Genesis 5:22

Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah for three hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.

2 Samuel 18:18

During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and set it up for himself in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to perpetuate my name.” The pillar which he named for himself is called Absalom’s Monument to the present day. David Told of Absalom’s Death.

Psalm 49:11

Indeed, he will see that the wise die, and the fool will perish together with the senseless, and they leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 49:12

Their tombs are their homes forever, their dwellings through all generations, “They named countries after themselves”

Daniel 4:30

At once this was fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar was cast out from human society, he ate grass like an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle, and his nails like the claws of a bird.