Hebrews 11:5
Hebrews 11:55By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
To preserve the teaching that only Jesus has gone to heaven, the Watchtower reads as describing a compassionate relocation or merciful death-without-suffering, rather than a bodily translation out of this age. "Transferred" (the NWT's rendering of metetethe) is read as "moved elsewhere" — not "taken up." And "did not see death" is stretched to mean "did not experience the anguish of dying," which the Greek does not permit.
is the decisive New Testament commentary on , and its phrase "so as not to see death" is unanswerable. A peaceful death is still death seen — the person still dies. The author of Hebrews makes the point explicit and redundant: Enoch was transferred, he did not see death, and he could not be found because God took him. Three clauses, each ruling out the merciful-death reading. Enoch is therefore the Old Testament's second witness alongside Elijah to bodily translation — two human beings taken out of this age without dying. The Watchtower's 1914 invisible-parousia theology needs "only Jesus went to heaven" to hold, but is the text that pulls the thread. Doorstep form: "Your own NWT says Enoch did not see death. If he died peacefully, did he see death or not?"