These Are the Generations of Noach

Great Flood Genesis 6:9-8:14

Noah was righteous in his wicked generation. Hashem decided to destroy the world in a flood. He, therefore, instructed Noach to build an ark, on which there would be two of each creature, seven pairs of clean animals.

Ark Materials

Gopher wood, caulked inside and outside with pitch.

Dimensions: 300 cubits long; 50 cubits wide; 30 cubits high with three decks with a skylight.

120 years to build.

Chronology of the Flood

Day of Flood

190

191

207

250

290

296

303

310

365

Hebrew Date 1656-1657

17 Cheshvan

29 Kislev

29 Iyar

1 Sivan

17 Sivan

1 Av

10 Elul

16 Elul

23 Elul

1 Tishrei 1657

27 Cheshvan

Civil Date 2106-2105 BCE

October 27

December 8

May 6

May 7

May 23

July 5

August 13

August 19

August 26

September 2, 2105 BCE

October 27

Event

Flood begins.

Forty-day rain ends; torrents begin.

150-day period of torrents ends.

Water begins to recede.

Ark rests on Ararat.

Mountaintops are visible

Raven sent out.

Dove sent out.

Dove brings olive leaf.

Dove does not return.

Water gone and earth begins to dry. Earth completely dry.

After the Flood

Covenant of the rainbow -- Genesis 8:15-9:19

Noach and his family left the ark. Noach built an altar and made a sacrifice to thank Gd.

Gd tells Noah of the covenant with Man, never to destroy the world with water.

Noach's Vineyard Genesis 9:20-29

Noach planted a vineyard.

His son, Ham, saw him in his nakedness while he was drunk.

Shem and Yefeth covered him.

When he awoke, he cursed Ham's fourth son Canaan.

Noach lived 350 years after the flood, dying at age 950.

The Seventy Nations -- Genesis 10

YEFETH

Gomer
Magog
Madai (Media)
Yavan (Ionia, Greece)
Tuval
Meshekh
Tiras (Thrace)
Ashkenaz
Rifath
Togarmah
Elishah
Tarshish (Tarsus)
Kittim
Dodanim

HAM

15. Cush (Ethiopia)
16. Mitzraim (Egypt)
17. Put
18. Canaan
19. Seba
20. Havilah
21. Sabta
22. Raamah
23. Sabteka
24. Sheba
25. Dedan
26. Nimrod*
27. Ludim
28. Anamim
29. Lehabim
30. Naphtuchim
31. Casluchim
32. Philistines
33. Caphtorim
34. Sidon
35. Heth
36. Jebusites
37. Amorites
38. Girgashites
39. Hivites
40. Arkites
41. Sinites
42. Arvadites
43. Tzemarites
44. Chamathites
Pathrusim*

SHEM

45. Elam
46. Asshur (Assyria)
47 Arpachshad
48. Lud (Lydia)
49. Aram
50. Utz
51. Chul
52. Gether
53. Mash
54. Shelah
55. Eber
56. Peleg
57. Yaktan
58. Almodad
59. Shelef
60. Chatzarmaveth
61. Yerach
62. Hadoram
63. Uzal
64. Diklah
65. Oval
66. Avimael
67. Sheba
68. Ophir
69. Havilah
70. Yovev

The Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1-9

The earth had one language. People migrated to Shinar to build a city and a tower,in rebellion against Gd. He confused their language and dispersed them over the earth.

Second Ten Generations -- Genesis 11:10-29

Noah

Shem

Arpachshad

Shelach

Eber

Peleg

Reu

Serug

Nachor

Terach

Avraham

Lived

1056-2006

1558-2158

1658-2096

1693-2126

1723-2187

1757-1996

1787-2026

1819-2049

1849-1997

1878-2083

1948-2123

Age at Fatherhood

500

100

Age at Death

950

600

403

433

464

239

230

148

205

175

Avraham's Family Genesis 11:26-32

Terach fathered Avram, Nachor, and Haran.

Haran fathered Lot, Milcah, and Yiscah.

Avram married Sarai; Nachor married Milcah.

Terach moved the family from Ur Casdim to Charan.

Terach died in Charan at age 205.