Genesis 5:32

5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he ¹  became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 7:9

7:9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, ²  just as God had commanded him. ³ 

Genesis 8:18

8:18 Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

Genesis 9:8

9:8 God said to Noah and his sons, ⁴ 

Genesis 9:19

9:19 These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. ⁵ 

Genesis 6:10

6:10 Noah had ⁶  three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:22

6:22 And Noah did all ⁷  that God commanded him – he did indeed. ⁸ 

Genesis 7:7

7:7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because ⁹  of the floodwaters.

Genesis 8:6

8:6 At the end of forty days, ¹⁰  Noah opened the window he had made in the ark ¹¹ 

Genesis 9:24

9:24 When Noah awoke from his drunken stupor ¹²  he learned ¹³  what his youngest son had done ¹⁴  to him.

Genesis 9:28--10:1

9:28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 9:29 The entire lifetime of Noah was 950 years, and then he died.

The Table of Nations

10:1 This is the account ¹⁵  of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons ¹⁶  were born ¹⁷  to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:32

10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread ¹⁸  over the earth after the flood.

[5:32]  ¹ tn Heb “Noah.” The pronoun (“he”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:9]  ² tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”

[7:9]  ³ tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:8]  ³ tn Heb “to Noah and to his sons with him, saying.”

[9:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “was scattered.” The verb פָּצָה (patsah, “to scatter” [Niphal, “to be scattered”]) figures prominently in story of the dispersion of humankind in chap. 11.

[6:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathered.”

[6:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “according to all.”

[6:22]  ⁷ tn The last clause seems redundant: “and thus (כֵּן, ken) he did.” It underscores the obedience of Noah to all that God had said.

[7:7]  ⁷ tn The preposition מִן (min) is causal here, explaining why Noah and his family entered the ark.

[8:6]  ⁸ tn The introductory verbal form וַיְהִי (vayÿhi), traditionally rendered “and it came to pass,” serves as a temporal indicator and has not been translated here.

[8:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “opened the window in the ark which he had made.” The perfect tense (“had made”) refers to action preceding the opening of the window, and is therefore rendered as a past perfect. Since in English “had made” could refer to either the ark or the window, the order of the phrases was reversed in the translation to clarify that the window is the referent.

[9:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “his wine,” used here by metonymy for the drunken stupor it produced.

[9:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he knew.”

[9:24]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew verb עָשָׂה (’asah, “to do”) carries too general a sense to draw the conclusion that Ham had to have done more than look on his father’s nakedness and tell his brothers.

[10:1]  ¹⁰ tn The title אֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת (’elle tolÿdot, here translated as “This is the account”) here covers 10:1–11:9, which contains the so-called Table of Nations and the account of how the nations came to be dispersed.

[10:1]  ¹¹ sn Sons were born to them. A vertical genealogy such as this encompasses more than the names of sons. The list includes cities, tribes, and even nations. In a loose way, the names in the list have some derivation or connection to the three ancestors.

[10:1]  ¹² tn It appears that the Table of Nations is a composite of at least two ancient sources: Some sections begin with the phrase “the sons of” (בְּנֵי, bÿne) while other sections use “begot” (יָלָד, yalad). It may very well be that the “sons of” list was an old, “bare bones” list that was retained in the family records, while the “begot” sections were editorial inserts by the writer of Genesis, reflecting his special interests. See A. P. Ross, “The Table of Nations in Genesis 10 – Its Structure,” BSac 137 (1980): 340-53; idem, “The Table of Nations in Genesis 10 – Its Content,” BSac 138 (1981): 22-34.

[10:32]  ¹¹ tn Or “separated.”