¹⁷ Cain made love to his wife,^(A) and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city,^(B) and he named it after his son^(C) Enoch.

⁴ I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself^(A) and planted vineyards.^{(B) 5} I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. ⁶ I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. ⁷ I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves^(C) who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. ⁸ I amassed silver and gold^(D) for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.^(E) I acquired male and female singers,^(F) and a harem^[a] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. ⁹ I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem^(G) before me.^(H) In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

²⁸ “It was the same in the days of Lot.^(A) People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. ²⁹ But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

¹⁸ During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley^(A) as a monument^(B) to himself, for he thought, “I have no son^(C) to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,^(A) so that we may make a name^(B) for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered^(C) over the face of the whole earth.”^(D)

²² After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God^(A) 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁸ When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.^(A)