¹⁷ Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

³⁰ and the king answered and said, ^(A)“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by ^(B)my mighty power as a royal residence and for ^(C)the glory of my majesty?”

⁴ I made great works. I ^(A)built houses and planted ^(B)vineyards for myself. ⁵ I made myself ^(C)gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. ⁶ I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. ⁷ I bought male and female slaves, and had ^(D)slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of ^(E)herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. ⁸ I also gathered for myself silver and ^(F)gold and the treasure of ^(G)kings and ^(H)provinces. I got ^(I)singers, both men and women, and many ^(J)concubines,^[a] the delight of the sons of man.

⁹ So I became great and ^(K)surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my ^(L)wisdom remained with me. ¹⁰ And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart ^(M)found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my ^(N)reward for all my toil. ¹¹ Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was ^(O)vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing ^(P)to be gained under the sun.

²⁸ Likewise, just as it was in the days of ^(A)Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, ^29 (B)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—

¹⁸ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself ^(A)the pillar that is in ^(B)the King's Valley, for he said, ^(C)“I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument^[a] to this day.

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower ^(A)with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”

²² Enoch ^(A)walked with God^[a] after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁸ When Jared had lived 162 years, he fathered ^(A)Enoch.