Flood survivor living at the time before the Flood
Noah
Lamech’s son, born when Lamech was 182 (Genesis 5:28–29). In a world where “every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil,” Noah “found favor in Yahweh’s eyes” and was “a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time” (Genesis 6:5–9). God told him to build an ark of gopher wood and bring his family and the animals aboard (Genesis 6:13–22). The flood began when Noah was 600 years old (Genesis 7:6), in 2348 BC on this timeline, and he, his wife, his three sons, and their wives were saved in the ark (Genesis 7:7, 13).
After the waters fell the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, and Noah built an altar and offered sacrifices (Genesis 8:4, 20). God blessed him and made a covenant with all living things, with the rainbow as its sign (Genesis 9:1–17). Noah planted a vineyard, was found drunk in his tent, and blessed and cursed his sons’ lines (Genesis 9:20–27). He lived 950 years (Genesis 9:28–29). Peter calls him “a preacher of righteousness” (2 Peter 2:5), the writer to the Hebrews says he acted in faith (Hebrews 11:7), and Jesus uses the days of Noah as a picture of his return (Matthew 24:37–39).
600 at the Flood (Genesis 7:6). Lived 350 years after it and died 2 years before Abram was born.
Family
- Father
- Lamech the father of Noah
- Children
- Shem, Ham, Japheth
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