Hanok

We have the two righteous people of this whole narrative.

Hanok, the righteous, he dies young.

Noah, who is the righteous one as well, and he's so old before he has his first child.

He's infertile.

And it was at that time in that year, which is the year of Joseph's going down to Egypt after his brothers had sold him, that Reuben, the son of Jacob, went to Timnah and took unto him for a wife Eliuram, the daughter of Avi the Canaanite, and he came to her.

And Eliuram, the wife of Reuben, conceived and bare him Hanok, Palu, Chetzran, and Carmi, four sons.

And Simeon, his brother, took his sister Dinah for a wife, and she bare unto him Memuel, Yamin, Ohad, Yachin, and Zokar, five sons.

And he afterward came to Buna, the Canaanitish woman, the same is Buna whom Simeon took captive from the city of Shechem, and Buna was before Dinah and attended upon her.

Now, From all of this moist soil of vague but very implicating and dramatic language, there is a sprouting up of beautiful legendary literature, pre-Agotic literature.

In the second temple, a book was written called the Book of Enoch, the Book of Hanok, which describes Hanok, this Hanok, as a legendary hero, In Second Temple times, he will become even more mystical, and he'll be called Metatron, a kind of person turned into an angel.

If you take a look at what's called Targum Yonatan Ben Uziel, who's Pseudo-Jonathan, you'll see that word Metatron right there in your Mikro Kadolot Bibles.

Enoch's goodness, apparently, is described as being so at odds with the evil that was taking place on the earth that God had to take him while he was still alive and lift him up into the heavens.