Genesis 5:32
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- KJV
- And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- WEB
- Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- ASV
- And Noah was five hundred years old: And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- DARBY
- And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- BLB
- Noah was a son of five hundred years, and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- ÅB
- Da Noah var fem hundre år gammel, fikk han sønnene Sem, Kam og Jafet.
- OTB
- Etter at Noah var 500 år gammel, fikk han Sem, Kam og Jafet.
- B1930
- Da Noah var fem hundre år gammel, fikk han sønnene Sem, Kam og Jafet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 6:10
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Read in contextGenesis 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
Read in contextGenesis 7:13
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Read in context1 Chronicles 1:4–28
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Read in contextGenesis 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Read in contextGenesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Read in contextGenesis 9:22–27
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Read in contextGenesis 9:18–19
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
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