Just an interesting look at Noah’s Family. Three sons are listed SHEM, HAM and JAPHETH, no daughters. Was Noah 500 years old before he had children? This seems strange but the answer could lay in the fact that the world had become very wicked and any children born earlier had fallen into the ways of the world and would perish in the flood. (Read Genesis 6:1-8)
Genesis 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
It appears Noah was 502 years old when Shem was born;
Genesis 11:10-11 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: and Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
making Japheth born 1-2 years prior to Shem and Ham born sometime after Shem: Japheth then Shem then Ham.
(Genesis 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son (Ham) had done unto him).
(Japheth, Shem, Ham oldest to youngest, in order of age).
Shem is in the Godly linage – therefore this is probably why he is listed first.
If there were any other children born between the age of 500-600 years of Noah’s life, they probably went the way of the world and perished in the flood.
After the Flood.
Genesis 9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
Genesis 10:1-2 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. (7 Sons)
Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. (4 Sons)
Genesis 10:21-22 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. (5 Sons)
Genesis 9:28-29 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
No other children are listed in scripture for Noah and his wife.
Noah is mentioned 8 times in the new testament:
In the genealogy of Jesus Luke 3:36 which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
And by the Lord Jesus Mathew 24:37-38 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Also recorded in Luke 17:26-27 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
1 Peter 3:20 which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
2 Peter 2:5 and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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