"Cush (Bible) Cush or Kush ( , ""Kush"") was, according to the Bible, the eldest son of Ham, a son of Noah. He was the brother of Canaan (land of Canaan), Mizraim (Egypt) and Phut (land of Libya), and the father of the Biblical Nimrod mentioned in the ""Table of Nations"" in the Genesis 10:6 and I Chronicles 1:8. Cush is traditionally considered the eponymous ancestor of the people of the ""land of Cush,"" an ancient territory that is believed to have been located on either side or both sides of the Red Sea. As such, ""Cush"" is alternately identified"
"to him, he cursed Ham's son Canaan to become the lowest of slaves to Japheth and Shem, prayed that God enlarge Japheth, and blessed the God of Shem. Noah lived to the age of 950 and then died. The second open portion (, ""petuchah"") ends here. As the reading continues, chapter sets forth the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the nations branched out over the earth after the Flood. Among Japheth's descendants were the maritime nations. Ham's son Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king"
"and seventh readings (, ""aliyot""). In the first reading (, ""aliyah""), the Torah writes that Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his age, who walked with God (in one many of His original translated names). Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. God saw that all flesh on earth had become corrupt and lawless. The first closed portion (, ""setumah"") ends here. In the continuation of the reading, God told Noah that God had decided to bring a flood to destroy all flesh. God directed Noah to make an ark of gopher wood and cover it with pitch"
"change their ways. He conveyed the message for over 950 years. For Muslims, Noah was married to a woman whose name is not mentioned in the Quran. Some Islamic historians such as Al-Tabari have suggested that the name of Noah's wife was Umzrah bint Barakil but this cannot be confirmed. Most Muslims simply call her by her biblical name Naamah. Islamic scholars agree that Noah had four sons whose names were Ham, Shem, Yam and Japheth. According to the Quran, one of Noah's sons was a disbeliever who refused to come aboard the Ark, instead preferring to climb a mountain,"
"Noah In Abrahamic religions, Noah ( ) was the tenth and last of the pre-Flood Patriarchs. The story of Noah's Ark is told in the Bible's Genesis flood narrative. The biblical account is followed by the story of the Curse of Ham. In addition to the Book of Genesis, Noah is mentioned in the Old Testament in the First Book of Chronicles, and the books of Tobit, Wisdom, Sirach, Isaiah, Ezekiel, 2 Esdras, 4 Maccabees; in the New Testament, he is mentioned in the gospels of Matthew, and Luke, the Epistle to the Hebrews, 1st Peter and 2nd Peter. Noah"
"the three sons of Noah; Shem, Ham and Japheth"" – it had been divided once previously among the three sons by Noah himself. Some Young Earth Creationists interpret this verse to refer to the continent of Pangaea split into modern continents. Peleg Peleg () is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Israelites, according to the ""Table of Nations"" in and . Peleg's son was Reu, born when Peleg was thirty, and he had other sons and daughters. According to the Hebrew Bible, Peleg lived to the age of 239"
"Noach (parsha) Noach, Noiach, Nauach, Nauah, or Noah (, Hebrew for the name ""Noah"", the third word, and first distinctive word, of the parashah) is the second weekly Torah portion (, ""parashah"") in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes The parashah tells the stories of the Flood and Noah's Ark, of Noah's subsequent drunkenness and cursing of Canaan, and of the Tower of Babel. The parashah has the most verses of any weekly Torah portion in the Book of Genesis (but not the most letters or words). It is made up of 6,907 Hebrew letters, 1,861 Hebrew"
"various gospels of the New Testament of the Bible. The Second Book of Enoch contains a section, called ""Exaltation of Melchizedek"", which says that Melchizedek was born of a virgin, Sofonim (or Sopanima), the wife of Nir, a brother of Noah. The child came out from his mother after she had died and sat on the bed beside her corpse, already physically developed, clothed, speaking and blessing the Lord, and marked with the badge of priesthood. Forty days later, Melchizedek was taken by the archangel Gabriel (Michael in some manuscripts) to the Garden of Eden and was thus preserved from"
"of Jared, who was a grandson of Kenan descended from Adam. When Lamech named his son Noah, he prophesied: ""This ""[same]"" shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the hath cursed."" (Genesis 5:29) The people were cumbered with the toil of cultivating a ground that had been cursed in Genesis 3:17, and they hoped for relief through Noah. Albert Barnes noted: ""In stating the reason of the name, they employ a word which is connected with it only by a second remove. נוּח nûach and נחם nācham are stems not immediately"
"Bible (Hebrew: כוש), son of Ham (Genesis 10:6). Ham had four sons named: Cush, Put, Canaan and Mizraim (Hebrew name for Egypt). According to the Bible, Nimrod, a son of Cush, was the founder and king of Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar (Gen 10:10). The Bible also makes reference to someone named Cush who is a Benjamite (Psalms 7:1, KJV). Some modern scholars, such as Friedrich Delitzsch, have suggested that the biblical Cush might be linked to the Kassites of the Zagros Mountains (modern Iran). Mentuhotep II, the 21st century BC founder of the Middle Kingdom, is recorded"
"Chileab Chileab, also known as Daniel, was the second son of David, King of Israel, according to the Bible. He was David's son with his third wife Abigail, widow of Nabal the Carmelite, and is mentioned in , and . Unlike the other of David's three elder sons, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah who were important characters in 2 Samuel, Chileab is only named in the list of David's sons and no further mention is made of him. Though being the second son, Chileab was not a contender for the throne of Israel, even after the death of the first-born Amnon,"
"about Noah and his offspring. In Newton's view, while Noah was a monotheist, the gods of pagan antiquity are identified with Noah and his descendants. In Mormon theology, Noah plays an important role, prior to his birth, as the angel Gabriel, and then lived in his mortal life as the patriarch-prophet Noah. Gabriel and Noah are regarded as the same individual under different names. Mormons also believe that Noah returned to earth as Gabriel after his earthly life and appeared to Daniel to teach him about the Second Coming; to Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist; and to Mary,"
"a reference to (or cause of) that legend. Chileab Chileab, also known as Daniel, was the second son of David, King of Israel, according to the Bible. He was David's son with his third wife Abigail, widow of Nabal the Carmelite, and is mentioned in , and . Unlike the other of David's three elder sons, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah who were important characters in 2 Samuel, Chileab is only named in the list of David's sons and no further mention is made of him. Though being the second son, Chileab was not a contender for the throne of Israel,"
"that after the Flood he might repeople the earth (Tan., Bereshit, 39; ""Sefer haYashar,"" section ""Noa?""). The other explanation is that God rendered him impotent until he reached the age of 500, saying: ""If his children be wicked, he will be afflicted by their destruction; and if they be upright like their father, they will be troubled with making so many arks"" (Genesis Rabba 26.2). The ""Sefer haYashar"" (l.c.) and Genesis Rabba (22.4) both agree that Noah's wife was called Naamah. According to the latter, she was the sister of Tubal-cain (Genesis 4.21); according to the former, she was a"
"Land of Nod The Land of Nod (, ""eretz-Nod"") is a place mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located ""on the east of Eden"" (""qidmat-‘Eden""), where Cain was exiled by God after Cain had murdered his brother Abel. According to Genesis 4:16: ""Nod"" (נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb ""to wander"" (לנדוד). Therefore, to dwell in the land of Nod is usually taken to mean that one takes up a wandering life. Genesis 4:17 relates that after arriving in the Land of Nod, Cain's wife bore him a son, Enoch, in whose name he"
"Book of Genesis as one of the three sons of Noah, saved through the Ark. They are always in the order ""Shem, Ham, and Japheth"" when all three are listed (Genesis 5:32, 9:18 and 10:1), but Genesis 9:24 calls Ham the youngest, and Genesis 10:21 refers ambiguously to Shem as ""brother of Japheth the elder,"" which could mean that either is the eldest. Most modern writers accept Shem-Ham-Japheth as reflecting birth order, but this is not always the case: Moses and Rachel also appear at the head of such lists despite explicit descriptions of them as younger siblings. Following the"
"time of Noah was by no means the only flood with which this earth was visited. The first flood did its work of destruction as far as Jaffé, and the one of Noah's days extended to Barbary""."" Noah in rabbinic literature Allusions in rabbinic literature to the Biblical character Noah, who saved his family and representatives of all the animals from a great flood by constructing an ark, contain various expansions, elaborations and inferences beyond what is presented in the text of the Bible itself. According to Midrash Agadah on Genesis v. 29, Noah obtained his name, which means ""rest,"""
"over the land of Egypt driving the Hamites to the south according to the Mormon text ""Book of Abraham"". Hadoram is also the name of the son of the king of Hamath, Tou. Hadoram Hadoram is the son of Joktan mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. One of Shem's sons was Arpachshad. One of Arpachshad's sons was Eber. Eber had two sons: Peleg and Joktan. Joktan had many sons including Hadoram as the Book of Genesis (10:26-30) states: According to Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's footnotes: ""Hadarom: Some interpret this"
"offspring, notably black skin. According to Edith Sanders, the sixth-century Babylonian ""Talmud"" says that ""the descendants of Ham are cursed by being Black and [it] depicts Ham as a sinful man and his progeny as degenerates."" Some Arab slave traders used the account of Noah and Ham in the Bible to justify Negro (Zanj) slavery, and later European and American Christian traders and slave owners adopted a similar argument. However, the Bible itself indicates that Noah restricted his curse to the offspring of Ham's youngest son Canaan, whose descendants occupied the Levant, and it was not extended to Ham's other"
"make Janus (the Roman deity) the fourth son of Noah, who moved to Italy, invented astrology, and instructed Nimrod. According to the monk Annio da Viterbo (1498), the Hellenistic Babylonian writer Berossus had mentioned 30 children born to Noah after the Deluge, including sons named Tuisto, Prometheus, Iapetus, Macrus, ""16 titans"", Cranus, Granaus, Oceanus, and Tipheus. Also mentioned are daughters of Noah named Araxa ""the Great"", Regina, Pandora, Crana, and Thetis. However, Annio's manuscript is widely regarded today as having been a forgery. Generations of Noah The Generations of Noah or Table of Nations ( of the Hebrew Bible) is"
"the third-born Absalom and fourth-born Adonijah. He may have died before his father. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Benjamin, Jesse and Amram. The throne eventually passed to his younger half brother, Solomon. Chileab is known as Daluyah in 2 Samuel in the Septuagint. According to Rashi, Rabbi Isaac said that some questioned whether Abigail was pregnant through David or her first husband, Nabal; therefore, God arranged that Chileab would resemble David. It is possible his name ""Chileab,"" which can be translated ""perfection of the father,"" is"
"parashah and the haftarah both report God's covenant with Noah never again to destroy the earth by flood. In the parashah and the haftarah, God confesses to anger at human transgression. In the wake of God's punishment, , , and all use the words ""no ... more"" (""lo' 'od""). The ""righteousness"" of Israel's children in echoes that Noah is ""righteous"" in his age in . The parashah has parallels or is discussed in these sources: | width=""25%"" align=""top"" style=""border:0""| | width=""25%"" align=""top"" style=""border:0""| | width=""25%"" align=""top"" style=""border:0""| Noach (parsha) Noach, Noiach, Nauach, Nauah, or Noah (, Hebrew for the name"
"Maher-shalal-hash-baz Maher-shalal-hash-baz (; ""Mahêršālālḥāšbaz"" – ""Hurry to the spoils!"" or ""He has made haste to the plunder!"" – was the second mentioned prophetic-name child in Isaiah chapter 7–9. The prophet Isaiah's first son Shearjashub is mentioned only once in . Commentators, Jewish and Christian, traditionally note that this first son's name is also prophetic – meaning ""the remnant shall return"" – but no account of why, when or how this son was named is given in the Book of Isaiah. The child Maher-shalal-hash-baz is the second prophetic-name child after the birth of Immanuel – traditionally understood as the son of"
"Noah's Brother Noah's Brother is a children's novel by the British author Dick King-Smith, first published in 1985. It looks at Noah's previously unknown older brother, Yessah - nicknamed as such by his nephews after the response he gives to his brother's orders, his full name of Hazardikladoran being too much of a mouthful - and his role in the Ark's construction and journey, Yessah being essentially used as a servant by his family. During the novel, Yessah befriends two white doves, 'Peace' and 'Goodwill', who become his friends during the Ark's voyage. He also saves the Ark from sinking"
"book, Enoch recounts two visions he has had to Methuselah. The first is about the Genesis flood narrative, and the second chronicles the history of the world from Adam to the Last Judgment. In the latter vision, men are represented as animals - the righteous are white cattle and sheep, the sinners and enemies of Israel are black cattle and wild animals. Following his father's death in the Book of Enoch, Methuselah is designated by God as a priest, while Methuselah's grandson, Noah's brother Nir, is designated by God as his successor. In Slavonic Enoch, Methuselah asks his father for"
"Simeon (son of Jacob) According to the Book of Genesis, Simeon () was the second son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Simeon. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an etiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. With Leah as a matriarch, Biblical scholars regard the tribe as having been believed by the text's authors to have been part of the original Israelite confederation, however, the tribe is absent from the parts of the Bible which textual scholars regard as the oldest"
"follow the customs of the Egyptians. The Israelites lived in Egypt for 210 years. According to Midrash Rabbah LVII. 4, Satan denounced Israel when they were in Egypt. Generally this is interpreted as happening after Joseph died and was because they stopped practicing circumcision. However the priestly tribe of Levi practiced circumcision in Egypt. Entry into the land of Israel required the circumcision of all the tribes. Noah the second Adam was also born circumcised. Noah's son Shem likewise was born circumcised. Although Shem is unanimously declared by the Rabbis to have been the youngest son of Noah, he is"
"that Jacob calls ""Allon Bachuth"" (אלון בכות), ""Oak of Weepings"" (Genesis 35:8). According to the Midrash, the plural form of the word ""weeping"" indicates the double sorrow that Rebecca also died at this time. Jacob then made a further move while Rachel was pregnant; near Bethlehem, Rachel went into labor and died as she gave birth to her second son, Benjamin (Jacob's twelfth son). Jacob buried her and erected a monument over her grave. Rachel's Tomb, just outside Bethlehem, remains a popular site for pilgrimages and prayers to this day. Jacob then settled in Migdal Eder, where his firstborn, Reuben,"
"son who refused to come aboard the Ark, instead preferring to climb a mountain, where he drowned. Some later Islamic commentators give his name as either ""Yam"" or ""Kan'an"". According to Irish mythology, as found in the ""Annals of the Four Masters"" and elsewhere, Noah had another son named Bith who was not allowed aboard the Ark, and who attempted to colonise Ireland with 54 persons, only to be wiped out in the Deluge. Some 9th-century manuscripts of the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" assert that ""Sceafa"" was the fourth son of Noah, born aboard the Ark, from whom the House of Wessex"
"called in general ""Noah,"" his father named him ""Menahem"" (""the comforter""). Noah was born circumcised (Midrash Agadah on Genesis 10:9; Tan., Noach, 6). Although Noah is styled ""a just man and perfect in his generations"" (Genesis 10:9), the degree of his righteousness is, nevertheless, much discussed by the ancient rabbis. Some of the latter think that Noah was a just man only in comparison with his generation, which was very wicked, but that he could not be compared with any of the other righteous men mentioned in the Torah. These same rabbis go still further and assert that Noah himself"
"their deaths he had another son, Beriah. He was the ancestor of Joshua, son of Nun, the leader of the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan. According to the biblical narrative, Jeroboam, who became the first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, was also from the house of Ephraim. The Book of Genesis related the name ""Ephraim"" to a Hebrew word for ""being fruitful"", referring to Joseph's ability to produce children, specifically while in Egypt (termed by the Torah as ""the land of his affliction""). In the biblical account, Joseph's other son is Manasseh, and Joseph himself is"
"Nimrod Nimrod (; , , ""an-Namrūd""), a biblical figure described as a king in the land of Shinar (Assyria/Mesopotamia), was, according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush, therefore the great-grandson of Noah. The Bible states that he was ""a mighty hunter before the Lord [and] ... began to be mighty in the earth"". Extra-biblical traditions associating him with the Tower of Babel led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God. Attempts to match Nimrod with historically attested figures have failed. Nimrod may not represent any one personage known to"
"Enoch went on to marry Edna, according to ""Jubilees"", and the sole named grandchild of Jared is Enoch's son Methuselah, the longest-living human mentioned in the Bible (, , ). Additionally, Jared was a forefather of Noah and his three sons. Jared's age was given as 962 years old when he died, making him the second-oldest person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, his age was 62 at fatherhood and only 847 at death, making Noah the oldest and Jared the seventh-oldest. Jared is also mentioned in Islam in the ""Qisas Al-Anbiya"", which mentions"