“ And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ”
- Section V - The Line to Noah - The Line of Sheth 1. ספר s e pher “writing, a writing, a book.” 9. קינן qēynān , Qenan, “possessor, or spearsman.” 12. < מהללאל mah...
Sethite Genealogy of Antediluvians. With the exception of Genesis 5:29 this comes from P, as is clear from the style, each statement being cast in the same mould, and the whole forming a mere catal...
five. See chronology of Patriarchs. App-22. begat. See Genesis 6:10 below. Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Named in inverted order. Japheth was the elder ( Genesis 10:21 ), Shem the youngest, and,...
32. And Noah was five hundred years old. Concerning the fathers whom Moses has hitherto enumerated, it is not easy to conjecture whether each of them was the first born of his family or not;...
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth - From Genesis 10:21 ; 1 Chronicles 1:5 , etc., we learn that Japheth was the eldest so...
Shem, Ham, and Japheth— Japheth was the elder born, Ham the second, and Shem the youngest, as appears from chap. 10: and from 1 Chronicles 1 : &c. But it is easy to see the reason why Shem is p...
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah was five hundred years old. That he and the other patriarchs were advanced in life ere the children whose name...
The Descendants of Adam to Noah The purpose of the historian in giving the names and ages of the antediluvian Patriarchs was, no doubt, to show the glorious ancestry of the chosen race, and to acc...
Noah was five hundred years old. — No reason is given why Noah had no son until he had attained to so ripe an age, nor, in fact, does it follow that he might not have had other sons, though unworth...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1-32 ; Genesis 6:1-22 ; Genesis 7:1-24 ; Genesis 8:1-22 ; Genesis 9:1-29 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was t...
the Wickedness of Men Genesis 5:25-32 ; Genesis 6:1-8 When a son was born to Lamech, he named him Noah, which means “ Rest. ”He thought that the boy would grow up to share and alleviate the...
In this chapter we have a condensed account of fifteen centuries in human history. The ruin of the race had come through man's belief in the devil's lie. "Ye shall not surely die." The repetition thr...
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. REFLECTIONS What a vast succession of years and ages, related in so few words! Here is no less than the whole history of...
And Noah was five hundred years old ,.... Or "the son of five hundred years" f; he was in his five hundredth year: it can hardly be thought that he should live to this time a single life, and have n...
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ver. 32. And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ] Twenty years had he heard from God, that the world should be destroyed...
And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth It should seem that Japheth was the eldest, ( Genesis 10:21 ,) but Shem is put first, because on him the covenant was entailed, as appears by Genesis 9:26 , w...
THE FAMILY OF ADAM - THROUGH SETH This chapter is called "the book of the genealogy of Adam" (v.1). However, the line of Cain is omitted and only the line of Seth included. The reason for this is in...
Account of Noah. B. C. 2448. 28 And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and beg...
2448 i.e. He began to beget; God in mercy denying him children till that time, that he might not beget them to the destroyer, that he might have no more than should be saved in the ark; or, having...
‘When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eig...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Notwithstanding the measure of difficulty standing in the way of ascertaining the meaning of the proper names of Scripture, the subject cannot be wisely neglected: what we do know i...
Genesis 5:1 . The book of generations; the princely line of holy patriarchs, from whom the Messiah descended. Genesis 5:4 . And begat sons and daughters; but not being primogenitors of the pro...
This is the book of the generations of Adam Distinguished men I. SOME MEN ARE RENDERED DISTINGUISHED BY THE PECULIARITY OF THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVE. Adam; the first human being to (1) in...
§ 3. THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM ( CH . 5:1-6:8) EXPOSITION The present section carries forward the inspired narrative another stage, in which the onward progress or development of the human...
From Enoch to Shem, Ham, and Japheth
A.M. 1556. B.C. 2448. Shem. Genesis 6:10 Genesis 7:13 Genesis 9:18 Genesis 9:19 Genesis 9:22-27 Genesis 10:1 Genesis 10:21 Genesis 10:32 1 Chronicles 1:4-28 Luke 3:36
And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth — These Noah begat (the eldest of these) when he was six hundred years old. It should seem that Japheth was the eldest, Genesis 10:21 , but Shem is put first,...