Three hundred sixty-five years — and no word of death
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καὶ ἐγένοντο πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι Ἑνὼχ τριακόσια ἑξήκοντα πέντε ἔτη.
The chapter gives its usual total — “all the days of … were N years” — but this time the sentence simply stops there. Every other patriarch’s total is immediately followed by καὶ ἀπέθανεν, “and he died” (vv.5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, and later 27, 31); here that clause is entirely absent, the first and only such silence in the genealogy. Three hundred sixty-five is also, of course, the number of days in a solar year — a detail later Enoch literature (outside this reader) develops at length, crediting this patriarch with revealed knowledge of the calendar and the courses of the heavens.
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