Kejadian 5:24

5:24 Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared ¹  because God took ²  him away.

Kejadian 42:36

42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. ³  Simeon is gone. ⁴  And now you want to take ⁵  Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

[5:24]  ¹ tn The Hebrew construction has the negative particle אֵין (’en, “there is not,” “there was not”) with a pronominal suffix, “he was not.” Instead of saying that Enoch died, the text says he no longer was present.

[5:24]  ² sn The text simply states that God took Enoch. Similar language is used of Elijah’s departure from this world (see 2 Kgs 2:10). The text implies that God overruled death for this man who walked with him.

[42:36]  ³ tn Heb “is not.”

[42:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “is not.”

[42:36]  ⁵ tn The nuance of the imperfect verbal form is desiderative here.