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Parshat Noach
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These are the generations of Noach

Bereshit (Genesis) 6:9 - 11:32 Haphtorah: Yeshiyahu (Isaiah) 54:1 - 55:5

Great Flood -- Genesis 6:9-8:14
Noah was righteous in his wicked generation. Hashem decided to destroy the world in a flood. He, therefore, instructed Noach to build an ark, on which there would be two of each creature, seven pairs of clean animals.

Ark
materials: gopher wood, caulked inside and outside with pitch
dimensions: 300 cubits long; 50 cubits wide; 30 cubits high
three decks with a skylight
120 years to build

Chronology of the Flood

Day of
Flood

0
40
190
191
207
250
290
296
303
310

365

Hebrew Date
1656-1657

17 Cheshvan
29 Kislev
29 Iyar
1 Sivan
17 Sivan
1 Av
10 Elul
16 Elul
23 Elul
1 Tishrei 1657

27 Cheshvan

Civil Date
2106-2105 BCE

October 27
December 8
May 6
May 7
May 23
July 5
August 13
August 19
August 26
September 2, 2105 BCE

October 27

Flood begins.
Forty-day rain ends; torrents begin.
150-day period of torrents ends.
Water begins to recede.
Ark rests on Ararat.
Mountaintops are visible
Raven sent out.
Dove sent out.
Dove brings olive leaf.
Dove does not return.
Water gone and earth begins to dry.
Earth completely dry.

After the Flood
Covenant of the rainbow -- Genesis 8:15-9:19
Noach and his family left the ark. Noach built an altar and made a sacrifice to thank Gd.
- covenant with Man, never to destroy the world with water
- Do not eat the limb of a living animal.
- He who spills the blood of man, through man shall his blood be spilled....

Noach's vineyard-- Genesis 9:20-29
Noach planted a vineyard.
His son, Ham, saw him in his nakedness while he was drunk.
Shem and Yefeth covered him.
When he awoke, he cursed Ham's fourth son Canaan.
Noach lived 350 years after the flood, dying at age 950.

The Seventy Nations -- Genesis 10

  1. YEFETH
  2. Gomer
  3. Magog
  4. Madai (Media)
  5. Yavan (Ionia, Greece)
  6. Tuval
  7. Meshekh
  8. Tiras (Thrace)
  9. Ashkenaz
  10. Rifath
  11. Togarmah
  12. Elishah
  13. Tarshish (Tarsus)
  14. Kittim
  15. Dodanim
16. HAM
17. Cush (Ethiopia)
18. Mitzraim (Egypt)
19. Put
20. Canaan
21. Seba
22. Havilah
23. Sabta
24. Raamah
25. Sabteka
26. Sheba
27. Dedan
28. Ludim
29. Anamim
30. Lehabim
31. Naphtuchim
32. Pathrusim
33. Casluchim
34. Philistines
35. Caphtorim
36. Sidon
37. Heth
38. Jebusites
39. Amorites
40. Girgashites
41. Hivites
42. Arkites
43. Sinites
44. Arvadites
45. Tzemarites
46. Chamathites
47. Nimrod
(SHEM)
48. Elam
49. Asshur (Assyria)
50. Lud (Lydia)
51. Aram
52. Utz
53. Chul
54. Gether
55. Mash
56. Peleg
57. Yaktan
58. Almodad
59. Shelef
60. Chatzarmaveth
61. Yerach
62. Hadoram
63. Uzal
64. Diklah
65. Oval
66. Avimael
67. Sheba
68. Ophir
69. Havilah
70. Yovev

The Tower of Babel-- Genesis 11:1-9
The earth had one language. People migrated to Shinar to build a city and a tower,in rebellion against Gd. He confused their language and dispersed them over the earth.

Second Ten Generations -- Genesis 11:10-29

Lived

Age at
Fatherhood

Age at
Death

Noah

1056-2006

500

950

1. Shem 1558-2158 100 600
2. Arpachshad 1658-2096 35 403
3. Shelach 1693-2126 30 433
4. Eber 1723-2187 34 464
5. Peleg 1757-1996 30 239
6. Reu 1787-2026 32 239
7. Serug 1819-2049 30 230
8. Nachor 1849-1997 29 148
9. Terach 1878-2083 70 205
10. Avraham 1948-2123 175

Avraham's family -- Genesis 11:26-32
Terach fathered Avram, Nachor, and Haran.
Haran fathered Lot, Milcah, and Yiscah.
Avram married Sarai; Nachor married Milcah.
Terach moved the family from Ur Casdim to Charan.
Terach died in Charan at age 205.


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