Highlighted in the ten generations (tol^edot) from Adam to Noah, Enoch, the 7^th, and Noah, the 10^th, walked with God. Enoch was the only person not having “and he died” after his name (Gen. 5:22, 24). Only Noah and his family survived the Flood and were reborn to a new beginning (Gen. 6:9-9:29). The list tells us that walking with God leads to a rebirth of not dying, a new beginning of righteousness.

YHWH commanded Abraham, “Walk before Me and be you perfect (blameless, tamim, Strong’s 8549), and I will make you exceedingly fruitful, the father of many nations” (Gen. 17:1-7). And “Abraham obeyed YHWH’s voice and kept His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws” (Gen. 26:5). His son Isaac walked with YHWH (Gen. 48:15). Jacob learned to walk with God, receiving the blessing of a name change “Israel,” יִשְׂרָאֵל, meaning “he will be a prince (sar, שָׂרָה) with God (El, אֵל).”¹ Abraham had commanded his children and household after him to keep the way of YHWH, doing righteousness (mishpat, מִשׁפָט) and justice (sedaqah, צְדָקָה). Abraham’s generations became a great and mighty nation through which all the nations of the earth are and will be blessed (Gen. 18:18-19). Walking blamelessly before YHWH’s face builds His house with abundant life (Psalm 127).

In the Wilderness of Sin, en route to Mount Sinai, some of Israel went out to gather manna on the Sabbath, and YHWH asked, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?” (Exo. 16:28). Eventually, His nation “will keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings, and they will hallow My Sabbaths” (Eze. 44:24). Solomon, in his dedication of the temple, prayed, “YHWH Elohim of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keeps Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts” (1Ki. 8:23).

Paul saw Noah’s flood experience as belonging to each of us, “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as the Anointed One was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4). And he saw Enoch’s “being taken” as ours, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Gal. 5:25), to walk in the good works He created us to do (Eph. 2:10), walking in the light as He is in the light (1Jo. 1:7).

Counting from the wavesheaf offering to Shavuot is seven weeks of the spring harvest (the omer count), in which we learn to walk before YHWH, numbering our days. Micah called it the whole duty of each of us, “to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God” (Mic. 6:8). Seven weeks marks the fulfillment of YHWH’s oath, 7², of bringing us to Himself.

Takeaway:
The ten-generation pattern is interrupted by Enoch and Noah, emphasizing their lives as crucial to the list’s significance. To not die and a new birth, a new beginning through a washing, connects to the Anointed One’s deliverance. Seven Sabbaths (7²), seven weeks of the omer count to Shavuot (Pentecost), are the times of perfecting, walking before God in His presence, and listening to His wisdom on how to live life, hallowing His appointed meetings and Sabbaths.

Fun Factors:
The blessing of blamelessly walking before YHWH’s face is numerically depicted as Abraham’s years lived (175) multiplied by seven weeks of Sabbaths (7²), the product which is the ten generations sum of years lived (8575, see Blog 10). This number 8575, (5 × 5 × 7 × 7 × 7), signifies all humanity’s generations walking by faith in the footsteps of Abraham, keeping YHWH’s charge, commandments, statutes, and laws.

In Genesis 17:1, YHWH commanded Abraham to walk before Him and be blameless.  The verse has 20 words totaling 5050.  The sum of 5050 can be written as 2 x 5² x 101, or 50(10² + 1²), or 69² + 17², marking El Shaddai’s victory (17) in living (3 x 23, chiah) and walking (hithallek, 2 x 23 x 10) with us in covenant.  The God who is yoked together with us, (YHWH (26), is the force in 101, the 26th prime and 12th Pythagorean prime, that will restore Abraham’s seed to Him in Jubilee, the 50 x 101. Its reality is shown in the square root of 5050, equaling 71, and the cube root of 5050, equaling 17; 5050 is the 100^th triangular number and the 34^th (2 x 17) centered nonagonal number.