Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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- Genesis 5:32 Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham,…
Gen 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Ver. 10. Shem, Ham, and Japheth.] {See Trapp on "Gen 5:32"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it…
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt,.... This is spoken as if he had never looked upon it before; whereas his eyes are always upon the earth, and the inhabitants of it, and upon all their ways and works: but this denotes the special notice he took, and the particular observation he made upon the condition and circumstances the earth, and its inhabitants, were in. And this is remarked, as well as the particle "behold" is used, to denote the certainty of this corruption; it must needs be true, that the earth was corrupted, since the omniscient God had declared it to be so, who sees and knows all things:
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth: that is, all men, excepting Noah; who were flesh, carnal and unregenerate persons; these had corrupted the way of God, the true religion, with their idolatries: and they had corrupted their own way, their manners, their life and conversation with their uncleanness and wickedness of various sorts: the Arabic writers (y) say, that after Enoch was taken away, the children of Seth and of Cain worshipped idols, everyone as he pleased, and were immersed in wickedness, and gave their right hands to each other, and joined in fellowship in committing sin and vice; and that in the times of Noah, none were left in the holy mount but he and his wife, and his three sons and their wives; all went down below and mixed with the daughters of Cain, and were immersed in sins, and worshipped strange gods, and so the earth was corrupted and filled with lasciviousness. The Jewish writers also observe (z), that the generations of Cain were guilty of uncleanness, men and women, like beasts, and defiled themselves with all kind of fornication and incest, everyone with his mother, and with his own sister, and with his brother's wife, and that openly, and in the streets: and Sanchoniatho (a), the Heathen historian, the writer of the history of Cain's line, says of the fifth generation before the flood, that the women of those times, without shame, lay with any man they could meet with.
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(y) Elmacinus & Patricides, apud Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. l. 1. c. 8. p. 242, 247. (z) Pirke Eliezer, c. 22. (a) Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 1. p. 34, 35.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Three sons — In this and in the…
10. Three sons — In this and in the three following verses the narrator, after his manner, goes back again over the ground already traversed.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. And Noah begat] See Gen_5:32.
10. And Noah begat] See Gen_5:32.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth…
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth (cf. Gen_5:32) Here (in the story of the Flood) if anywhere, observes Rosenm can traces be detected of two distinct documents (duorum monumentorum), in the alternate use of the names of the Deity, the frequent repetitions of the same things, and the use of peculiar forms of expression; and in vers. 9-13, compared with Gen_6:5-8, Bleek, Tuch, Colenso, and others find" the first instance of needless repetition, on the supposition of the unity of the narrative, but a sure index of the Elohistic pen, on the hypothesis of different authors; but the so-called "repetition" is explained by remembering that Gen_6:5-8 forms the close of a section "bringing down the history to the point at which the degeneracy of mankind causes God to resolve on the destruction of the world," while the new section, which otherwise would begin too abruptly, introduces the account of the Deluge by a brief description of its cause (cf. Quarry, p. 367) The structure of the narrative here is not different from what it appears elsewhere (cf. Gen_2:4 Gen_5:1)
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