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NOAH (ni, See also:rest; See also:Septuagint, New Testament, See also:Philo, See also:Josephus, Na*, N&i os, Nweos: Vulg. Noe)  . According to Gen. v.–x. the tenth See also:patriarch in See also:direct descent from See also:Adam, counting Adam as the first; the son of See also:Lamech; the See also:father of See also:Shem, See also:Ham and See also:Japheth; and the builder of the See also:Ark, in which he and his See also:family, &c . &c., were saved from a universal See also:flood (see See also:DELUGE) . After the flood subsided See also:God made a See also:covenant with See also:Noah permitting the use of See also:animal See also:food, on See also:condition that the flesh is not eaten with the See also:blood; and forbidding See also:homicide (ix . 1-7, cf. i . 29 f., both P.) . Noah was the first to cultivate the See also:vine and to experience the consequences of over-See also:indulgence in its products, an occasion which called forth the filial respect of two of his sons and the irreverence of the third . Through his sons he became the ancestor of the whole human See also:race . The name is mentioned in the See also:genealogy in I Chron. i . 4; the " See also:waters of Noah " occur in See also:Isaiah liv . 9; and Noah is mentioned with See also:Daniel and See also:Job as an See also:ancient worthy in Ezek. xiv . 14, 20 .

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story is referred to in the New Testament in Matt. See also:xxiv . 37 f.; See also:Luke iii . 36, xvii . 26 f.; Heb. xi . 7; I Pet. iii . 20; 2 Pet. ii . 5 . The name Noah is explained in Gen. v . 29 as connected with the See also:root nhm " comfort," but this is etymologically impossible . As a See also:Hebrew word it might connect with nuah, " See also:rest "; and the See also:Septuagint has, " he will give us rest," instead of " he will comfort us "; and this is sometimes accepted as the See also:original See also:reading . As the tenth patriarch Noah corresponds to the tenth pre-historic Babylonian See also:king, Xisuthros in See also:Berossus, Ut-napistim or Atrahasis in the See also:cuneiform tablets, the See also:hero of the Babylonian flood story . Gen. ix .

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episode, and has no necessary connexion with the narrative of the Deluge . Probably, as Gunkel, See also:Dillmann and others suggest, it came originally from a See also:cycle of stories different from that which contained the See also:account of the Flood . There are some apparent inconsistencies . Noah is called " the husbandman." The proper rendering of See also:verse 20 is " and Noah, the husbandman, was the first to plant a vineyard," the E.V.: " And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard," is incorrect . It seems, therefore, that in the original context Noah had been described as " the husbandman," a See also:title in no way suggested by Gen. vi . 9–ix . 19 . Moreover, even after making See also:allowance for lack of experience as to the effect of the new product, See also:drunkenness and exposure hardly See also:tally with the statement that " Noah was a just See also:man and perfect in his genera-1 tions, and Noah walked with God," vi . 9 . This indeed comes 1 from the See also:late Priestly See also:Code; but we are also told in the earlier story that " Noah found favour in the eyes of the See also:Lord," vi . 8 . The name also occurs in the See also:Bible (ewi, Nova, No¢) for the daughter of Zelophehad, of the tribe of See also:Manasseh .

Zelophehad having only daughters, the See also:

case is made the occasion of laying down the See also:law that where there are no sons daughters inherit, but must marry within their own tribe (Num. See also:xxvi . 33, See also:xxvii . I, See also:xxxvi . 11; Josh. xvii . 3, all Priestly Code) . (W . H .

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