HOLY ZION , THE RISE OF LEGEND #

CHAPTER 5 THE NOAH

                      Noah was the tenth of the Pre-floodPatriarchs .His father was Lamech When Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem , ham , and Japeth . 

                                                                                   AFTER THE FLOOD 

           After the flood, Noah offered burnt offerings to God, who said: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done"

 "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"  They were also told that all fowls, land animals, and fishes would be afraid of them. Furthermore, as well as green plants, every moving thing would be their food with the exception that the blood was not to be eaten. Man's life blood would be required from the beasts and from man. "Whoso Sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man" (9:6).A rainbow, called "my bow", was given as the sign of a covenant "between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations" called the Noahic covenant or the rainbow covenant.

   Noah died 350 years after the flood, at the age of 950,the last of the extremely long-lived Patriarchs. The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the , diminishes thereafter, from almost 1,000 years to the 120 years of Moses. 

                                                                               Noah 's DRUNKENNESS

      After the flood, the Bible says that Noah became a and he planted a vineyard. He drank wine made from this vinyard, and got drunk; and lay "uncovered" within his tent. Noah's son Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his brothers, which led to Ham's son by Noah. As early as the , commentators on have excused Noah's excessive drinking because he was considered to be the first wine drinker; the first person to discover the effects of wine . wrote in the 4th Century that Noah's behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its effects: "Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor". 

                                                                           CURSE OF HAM 

     Because of its brevity and textual inconsistencies, it has been suggested that this narrative is a "splinter from a more substantial tale". A fuller account would explain what exactly Ham had done to his father, or why Noah directed a curse at for Ham's misdeed, or how Noah came to know what occurred. Noah became drunken and "he was uncovered within his tent", andHam "saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without". 

                                                                                TABLE OF NATIONS 

 " 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.Among Japheth's descendants were the maritime nations.  Ham's son had a son named , who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king in and the land of Shinar. From there went and built .  Canaan's descendants – Sidon, , the , the , the Girgashites, the , the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites – spread out from as far as , near , and as far as Sodom and Gomorrah . Among Shem's descendants was Eber.These genealogies differ structurally from those set out in . It has a segmented or treelike structure, going from one father to many offspring. It is strange that the table, which assumes that the population is distributed about the Earth, precedes the account of the , which says that all the population is in one place before it is dispersed. "

                                                                                       FAMILY TREE

                                                                      "Cain , Abel , Seth sons of Adam & Eve 

                                                                         Enoch son of Cain & Awan

                                                                         Enos son of Seth & Azura

                                                                         Irad son of Enoch

                                                                         Kenan son of Enos              

                                                                         Mehujael son of  Irad 

                                                                          Mahalalel son of Kenan & Maualeleth

                                                                          Methushalel son of Enoch , Idris & Edna

                                                                          Jared son of Mahalalel & Dinah 

                                                                           Lamech son of  Methushalel  &  Edna                    

                                                                           NOAH son of LAMECH "