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Genesis 5:32
“Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
When considering the Genealogies of Genesis 5, it becomes evident that the standard form of recording the offspring of each firstborn son, is to name that son and then say of the father of that son, “and he had other sons and daughters”. The obvious implication is that such and such had a firstborn son (who is named) and then he lived ‘x’ amount of years, “and he had other sons and daughters.” Each paragraph reads the same, or has the same format, until we get to Noah.
For example:
Gen 5:28 “Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son. Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed.” Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.”
But when we come to Noah in verse 32 we read:
“Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
Does this verse indicate that Noah had triplets? Or simply that both Shem, Ham and Japheth were prominent persons, and although born at different times, their names were recorded for posterity due to their prominence as three of the eight on the Ark and the fathers of the post flood World?
