Noah and his three sons
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Καὶ ἦν Νῶε ἐτῶν πεντακοσίων, καὶ ἐγέννησεν Νῶε τρεῖς υἱούς, τὸν Σήμ, τὸν Χάμ, τὸν Ἰάφεθ.
The chapter’s hinge into what follows: Noah, five hundred years old, and his three sons named in the order that will matter for the rest of Genesis — Shem, Ham, and Japheth, whose descendants fill the Table of Nations (Gen 10) after the Flood (Gen 6-9) that these final verses are already quietly setting up. Ham and Japheth appear nowhere else in the New Testament’s own vocabulary (unlike Shem, Noah, and every patriarch back through this chapter’s line to Adam, all of whom Luke’s genealogy of Jesus, 3:36-38, eventually names) — their line runs elsewhere in Scripture’s story, not through the New Testament’s own family tree.
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