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[[Cainan]] ([[Hebrew]]: '''קֵינָן''', ''Qeinan''; "possession, metalsmith," or more likely "sorrow, dirge, elegy"<ref name=Missler>Missler, Chuck. "[http://www.khouse.org/articles/2000/284/ Meaning of the Names in Genesis 5]." ''[http://www.khouse.org/ Koinonia House Online].'' Accessed December 25, 2007.</ref>) (325 AM-1235 AM, or 3769 BC-2769 BC) was the son of [[Enos]] and the father of [[Mahalaleel]]. He was born when Enos was 90 years old, in 325 AM.<ref name=Ussher>[[James Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World]]'', [[Larry Pierce]], ed., Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003 (ISBN 0890513600), pgh. 15</ref>
Cainan had a son, Mahalalel, at age 70 (395 AM),<ref name=Ussher2>[[James Ussher|Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World|op. cit.'']], pgh. 16</ref> and died at the age of 910, in 1235 AM<ref name=Ussher3>[[James Ussher|Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World|op. cit.'']], pgh. 26</ref>{{Bible quote|And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel: And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.|book=Genesis|chap=5|verses=12-14|version=KJV}}
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Cainan had a son, Mahalalel, at age 70 (395 AM),<ref name=Ussher2>[[James Ussher|Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World|op. cit.'']], pgh. 16</ref> and died at the age of 910, in 1235 AM<ref name=Ussher3>[[James Ussher|Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World|op. cit.'']], pgh. 26</ref>{{Bible quote|And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel: And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.|book=Genesis|chap=5|verses=12-14|version=KJV}}
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[[Category:Book of Genesis Persons]]