In the Masoretic Hebrew text stream for Genesis 11:13 a copyist skipped from the Hebrew words for “hundred years and fathered sons and daughters. And lived” to their next occurrence. This initially removed most of the information about Kenan. The Hebrew copy used for the Greek LXX translation done in the 3rd cent. B.C. was from a text stream that did not experience the copyist skip.

Key words: translation, genesis 11:13, luke 3:36, cainan, kenan