Noah and descendants

Noah as we saw, in my previous post was the only person who himself and his family made it through from the pre-flood era.
Noah was 600 years old when the floods came upon the earth. Shem, Noah 's son was approximately 100 years old during the flood.
Now it is surprising to note that Abraham was a contemporary of Noah.
We can observe from the portion succeeding the flood that.
1.Abraham was a contemporary of Noah and that Noah dies when Abraham was 60 years.
2.Assuming that Abraham met Noah he must have got a first hand information about the life in the pre-flood times, even perhaps information about moments before the fall, passed on from Seth[Adam's son].
If we take the geneology of generations from Noah to Abraham,we can discover that
Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah and Eber all outlived their descendants : Peleg,Reu and Serug.
Abraham never saw his grandfather Nahor but still may have seen Noah, Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah and Eber his ancestors.
We see a sharp fall in life span with each generation from Noah till Abraham. With an even depressed life span in the times of Peleg, Reu and Serug probably due to the separation of continents during Peleg's time.
A rise in life span is seen from Nahor.
More about Abraham's kindred and family in the next post.
Good day.

Adam to Noah

If we were to consider the geneology of patriarchs who lived in the pre-flood era, we arrive at some conclusions that may go unnoticed at myriad occasions. People tend to omit geneologies of the Bible simply because it appears dry as to read through just names and more names.As I happened to go through Genesis 5 the other day, it made me think why not take a pen and calculate the ages of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah.When I started calculating their ages I found out to my surprise that many of them were contemporaries to each other due to their startling longevity of as long as 9 centuries, which I never knew before till now when a friend of mine told that Adam was a contemporary of Lamech (Noah's father).This had sparked my curiosity.

First I listed their life span or total number of years they lived on the earth according to the Bible.

1. Adam                     -     930 years.

2. Seth                       -     912 years.

3. Enos                      -     905 years.

4. Cainan                   -     910 years.

5. Mahaleel                -     895 years

6.  Jared                      -     962 years.

7. Enoch                    -     365 years (translated/raptured).

8.  Methuselah             -     969 years.

9.  Lamech                  -      777 years.

10. Noah                     -      950 years.


If one was to closely examine these in the order that they are written in the bible,
We can find out that :

1. Adam and his descendants were a contemporary of Lamech (Noah's father).

2. Seth (Adam's son) and his descendants was a contemporary of Noah.

3. All the patriarchs died before the flood.

4. Lamech died before the death of his father Methuselah by 5 years.

5. Methuselah died in the year of the flood or we can interpret it as : the flood came on the earth, in the year that Methuselah died.

6. Cainan died before his father Enos died.

7. The floods came upon the earth when Noah was 600 th year of his life.

8. Perhaps Noah was helped and encouraged by many of his ancestors when building the ark.

9. The floods came approximately 1712 years after the creation.

Seth and his descendants could have shared their experiences with Noah including the era before the fall passed on by Adam along with how the fall happened.
Hope these change our perspective of the book of Genesis.

More about Noah in the next post.