Genesis 5
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Summary
God creates man and calls him Adam. Adam is the father of Seth, who becomes the father of Enos, who is the father of Cainan, who is the father of Mahaleel, who is the father of Jared, who is the father of Enoch, who is the father of Methuselah, who is the father of Lamech, who is the father of Noah, who is the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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See Biblical Chronology- Before 3000 BC
Further Reading
Book of Mormon Central, “How Does The Book of Mormon Use a Hebrew Pun on King Noah’s Name? (Mosiah 11:6),” KnoWhy 406 (February 8, 2018).
Matthew L. Bowen, “’This Son Shall Comfort Us’: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 23 (2017): 263–298.
Kent P. Jackson and Charles Swift “The Ages of the Patriarchs in the Joseph Smith Translation,” in A Witness for the Restoration: Essays in Honor of Robert J. Matthews, ed. Kent P. Jackson and Andrew C. Skinner (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007), 1–11.
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