Study Desk

He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.

On that same day Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives went into the boat.

The dove could not find a place to land because water still covered the earth, so it came back to the boat. Noah reached out his hand and took the bird and brought it back into the boat.

So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth.

"Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.

Then God said to Noah and his sons,

When he drank wine made from his grapes, he became drunk and lay naked in his tent.

Ham, the father of Canaan, looked at his naked father and told his brothers outside.

Noah was sleeping because of the wine. When he woke up and learned what his youngest son, Ham, had done to him,

he said, "May there be a curse on Canaan! May he be the lowest slave to his brothers."

Canaan was the father of Sidon, his first son, and of Heth.

Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had sons. One of his descendants was the father of all the sons of Eber.

Eber was the father of two sons—one named Peleg, because the earth was divided during his life, and the other was named Joktan.

This is the family history of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, his son Arphaxad was born.

When Arphaxad was 35 years old, his son Shelah was born.

When Shelah was 30 years old, his son Eber was born.

When Eber was 34 years old, his son Peleg was born.

When Peleg was 30 years old, his son Reu was born.

When Reu was 32 years old, his son Serug was born.