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4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1 Chronicles 1:4

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  • And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

  • And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

  • And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

  • And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-27)

This paragraph has Adam for its first word and Abraham for its last. Between the creation of the former and the birth of the latter were 2000 years, almost the one-half of which time Adam himself lived. Adam was the common father of our flesh, Abraham the common father of the faithful. By the breach which the former made of the covenant of innocency, we were all made miserable; by the covenant of…

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