noahs sons

[notaxbill]

were all of Noah's sons married to pagan women?

[mary]

I don't think scripture gives us additional information on the in-laws of Noah, I haven't noticed anything.  And, not knowing the customs of that land or time it is hard to know about the wifes background's as far as their ages when they were wed or espoused.  There are many possible scenarios:  

• they could have been espoused as children and raised by Noah's household
• they could have been specially chosen and protected by Christ for the continuation of the seed of mankind and raised in household were corruptive influences were limited,
• they could have been chosen through the course of events that people in our day and time enter into marriage and been from any kind of family background, God knows. 

Whether they were "pagan women" inplies that they were grown and practicing some kind of religion that included idol worship before they were a part of Noah's family and I don't think that was true because of the mission God had planned out. 

 

I think it is likely that Noah's sons were triplets. 

 

GENESIS 5:

 

²⁵ Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech. ²⁶ After he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters. ²⁷ So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
²⁸ Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and had a son. ²⁹ And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.” ³⁰ After he begot Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters. ³¹ So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.
³² And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 

~~mary
Romans 8:28

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[notaxbill]

Just a little something to look at. Don't you love computer folks
http://s8int.com/phile/noahsark24.html

[schi...@northlink.com]

When Noah reached the age of 500 he began having sons, three of them the
Bible records. They were not triplets. The original Hebrew word the KJV
translates "was 500" (Genesis 5:32) means "yet 500". 'Was' in the text is
Strong's OT#1961 the same as used in Genesis 6:3. It simply means Noah
'existed' 500 years before the arrival of his first child.

The sons of Noah --
Japheth was the eldest -- Genesis 8:13.
Ham was the youngest -- Genesis 9:24.
This means Shem was the middle son.

Genesis 11:10 says Shem reached the age of 100 before he had his own son,
Arphaxad. That occurred two years after the Flood ended. Japheth was
born when Noah was 500. Shem was 100 years two years after the Flood
meaning he was born when Noah was 502 (round figures here). Ham was the
youngest. He came along sometime later.

Bob Schimmel

[mary]

Hello Bob,

You may be right but would you please break down your argument into your sources so that it makes sense to me?  All triplets have an order of birth and there is an oldest and middle and youngest, just as Jacob and Esau were twins and Esau was older and Jacob was younger.

 

The beginning of the flood and the end of the flood were some considerable month aparts from each other so I just need to see how you found your conclusions if you would please? 

 

 

~~mary
Romans 8:28

 

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[Theda]

Here are the givens:

"In the six hundreth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month"...the flood began. Genesis 7:11

"...in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first
day of the month ... Noah removed the covering from the ark...".
Genesis 8: 13

"in the second month [of the 601st year], on the seven and twentieth
day of the month the earth was dried...God spake...go forth..."
Genesis 8: 14

The time confined to the ark - the duration of the flood - was one
year and 10 days.

Genesis 11:10 "...Shem was an hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two
years after the flood." At the end of [after] a one year and 10 day
flood Shem was 98 years old. At the beginning of the flood Shem was 97
years old.

Genesis 5: 32 "...Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat
Shem, Ham, and Japheth."

Japheth, the elder - Genesis 10:21. Noah's age - 500 years

At the beginning of the flood Shem was 97 years old, Noah was 600.
Noah would have been 503 when he begat Shem.

Ham, the younger - Genesis 9:24

I don't see how they could be triplets.
I do see where it would be easy to assume that they were if we only
relied on the pattern of the genealogy account of their ancestors.

[mary]

Thanks Theda,

 I appreciate your research.

 

~~mary
Romans 8:28

 

 

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