I. CAINAN, the Son of Enos, was born in the year of the world 325. His Father Enos was at that time ninety years of Age. Genes. v. 9. We know no other particularity of his Life, except that at the Age of seventy, he begat Mahalaleel. Cainan died at the Age of nine hundred and ten, in the year of the World 1235, before J. C. 2765, before the vulgar Æra 2769.
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