At the end of Genesis 5, we learn that Noah has been alive for 500 years. Shem, Ham, and Japheth were his three sons. In the rest of Genesis 6, we find out why Noah was asked to build the ark. The Bible says that the sons of God could see that the daughters of humans were beautiful.
In verse 3, we can see that man’s life span is cut down to 120 years. Some say this happened after the Flood, though. Some experts think this is also a countdown to the Flood. The Lord said His Spirit wouldn’t always fight with people.
Know that Noah died when he was 950 years old. God told him to build the ark when he was about 600 years old. His sons were all grown up and married, so they could help him.
If you read Genesis 5, you will see that people lived for a long time. Adam died when he was 930 years old. His son Seth died when he was 912 years old. After Cain and Able, Adam did have more kids. God took Enoch when he was 365 years old, according to verse 24.
He was the only person in the Bible who did not die. Both of them were just taken by God because he liked them. During the time of Noah, when Enoch was being taken to heaven, there were giants living on earth. Different people have told me different things about what “sons of God” meant.
Several different reasons are given in my KJV Study Bible. Some theologians think that Cain and Seth were the ancestors of the sons of God (The KJV Study Bible, Barbour Publishing, 2011). Many other people think that they are the children of fallen angels who had kids with human women.
This didn’t make God happy. Their children grew up to be giants. Because of this and the fact that people’s sins were getting worse, God said that He was going to wipe everyone off the face of the earth. God said that every evil thought that came into a person’s mind was always evil.
I know there were priests and prophets at the time, but people did whatever they wanted. Sin was common. At this time, evil was everywhere, and God felt bad that He had made people. Genesis 6:8, says, “Noah found favor in the Lord’s eyes.” He was a good man who followed God. Through the ark, God saved Noah and his family.
When he died, how old was Noah?
Genesis 5–10 gives a timeline of Noah’s family, so we can find out how old Noah was when he died and at other important times in his life. Genesis 5:28–30 says that Noah was born to Lamech. Lamech was the son of Methuselah and the grandson of Enoch.
Lamech was 128 years old when he had Noah, whose name comes from a Hebrew word that means “relief” (Genesis 5:29). Lamech died when he was 777 years old, so Noah would have been 595 at the time.
Noah had the first of his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, when he was 500 years old (5:32). Genesis 9:24 says that Ham was the youngest, and Genesis 10:21, which can be translated in different ways, seems to say that Japheth was Shem’s older brother.
Shem was 98 when the flood happened and 100 when he had his first son (Genesis 11:11), so Noah had to be 502 when Shem was born. So, Japheth was the oldest son because Shem wasn’t born until 2 years after Japheth.
After the flood, Noah lived for 350 years and died when he was 950 years old (Genesis 9:28-29). This means he lived long enough to see the land recover from the flood and all three of his sons start their own families and have more children. His son Shem was the first person in the family line that led to Abraham. This is where the word “Semite” comes from (descendants of Shem).
When Noah built the ark, how old was he?
People sometimes say that it took Noah 120 years to make the ark. Based on the number given in Genesis 6:3, this seems to be a mistake (more on that later). Genesis 7:6 says that Noah was 600 years old when the flood took place.
But the Bible isn’t clear about how old Noah was when God told him and his family to build the ark. After it says that Noah had sons (Genesis 6:5-8), it says that God got tired of how bad people were. Assuming that these things happened in the order they did, this means that God decided to wipe out everyone after Noah was 500 years old.
In the story of how God gave Noah a job, we do learn one important thing. God tells Noah that he’s going to kill most people and tells him how to build the ark. When the boat is done, God tells Noah, “Enter the boat—you and your wife, your sons, and their wives” (Genesis 6:18).
So, by this time, not only must Noah have had sons, but those sons must also have been married. We don’t know if Japheth and Ham started having kids before or after the flood. If they started having kids before or after the flood, that could tell us how long his sons had been married when the flood happened.
Since people in the Ancient Near East seemed to get married young and men during this time could have children well past 100, Noah’s sons could have been anywhere from teenagers to people in their 90s when they started building the ark.
Many scholars think that Noah’s sons were in their 20s when they got married, which would make Noah at least 520 years old when he started building the ark.
When the flood came, how old was Noah?
Genesis 7:6 says, “Noah was 600 years old when the waters of the flood came on the earth.” This point is made again in verse 11. The flood lasted about a year, and Genesis 8:13 says that “the water had dried up from the earth by the first day of the first month of Noah’s 600th year.”
Genesis 9:28–29 says it all: “After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. Noah lived for 950 years in total, and then he died. Noah is the last of the old people who lived a long time. In Genesis 5, there is a list of men who lived very long lives.
Most of them lived for more than 900 years. After the flood, people began to die much younger than they had before. Genesis 11 gives another list of men who lived after the flood.
By the time of Abraham, the average age was around 200 years, which is still very old by today’s standards. Genesis 25:7 says that Abraham lived to be 175 years old.
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