Adam, (b. )

Note: The book of Jubilees Chapter 4 -http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/ot/pseudo/jubilee.htm--
has the following information about the wives some of the Patriarchs:

Adam (1-931 AM), m. Eve (3-941 AM)
Seth (231-1143 AM), m. Azûrâ, his sister
Enosh (436-1341 AM), m. Noam, his sister
Cainan (626-1536 AM), m. Mûalêlêth, his sister
Mahalalel (796-1691 AM), m. Dînâh, dau. of Barâkî'êl, son of Enosh, above
Jared (961-1923 AM), m. Bâraka, dau. of Râshûjâl, son of Cainan, above
Enoch (1123-1488 AM), m. Ednâ, dau. of Dânêl, son of Mahalalel, above
Methuselah (1288-2257 AM), m. Ednâ, dau. of Âzrîâl, son of Jared, above
Lamech (1475-2228 AM), m. Bêtênôs, dau. of Bârâkî'îl, son of Enoch, above
Noah (1663-2613 AM), m. Emzârâ, dau. of Râkê'êl, son of Methuselah, Shem (2165-2765 AM) (whence Semite)
Arphaxad (Arpachshad) (2265-2880 AM), m. Râsû'ejâ, dau. of Elam, son of Shem, above
Cainan (Kenan) (2400-2860 AM) *, m. Mêlkâ
Shelah (Salah) (2530-2990 AM), m. Mû'ak, dau. of Kêsêd, son of Arphaxad, above
Eber (Heber) (2660-3164 AM) (whence Hebrew)
Peleg, next
Joktan
Peleg (2794-3133 AM)
Reu (2924-3263 AM)
Serug (3056-3386 AM), m. Mêlkâ, dau. of Kâbêr, son of Peleg, above
Nahor (3186-3394 AM)
Terah (3265-3470 AM)
Haran
Abraham
Nahor
Sarah (Sarai) (3345-3472 AM) (by other wife), m. Abraham

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 1-5

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 1-4

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 4:25-26; 5:3-8
Data:
Text: "And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him there was born a son: and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

And Adam lived an hudred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth... And seth lived an hundred and five years, and begot Enos: And seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

Death: 2962 B.C.

Burial: 146

Source: (Name)
Title: Book Jasher

Page: 2.16
Data:
Text: And these are the names of the children of Cainan; the name of the first born Mahlallel, the second Enan, and the third Mered, and their sisters were Adah and Zillah; these are the five children of Cainan that were born to him.

Source: (Name)
Title: Book of Jasher

Page: 2.16
Data:
Text: And these are the names of the children of Cainan; the name of the first born Mahlallel, the second Enan, and the third Mered, and their sisters were Adah and Zillah; these are the five children of Cainan that were born to him.

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 5:6 - 5:11
Data:
Text: "And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos... And Enos lived ninety years, and begot Cainan: And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died."

Death: 2864 B.C.

Burial: 145

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 5:25-30
Data:
Text: And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech... and Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years; and he died.

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 5:25-31
Data:
Text: "And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and sevey years, and begat Lamech... and Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: and he called his name Noah... and Lamech after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: and all of the days Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Death: 2353 B.C.

Burial: 139

Note: In his old age Noah shared the world with his sons: for Ham he intended the western region, for Japheth the northern region, but for Shem the southern region, with those parts which will hereafter be marked out in the division of the earth into three parts. In the time that the sons of these men were in the world, then increased forthwith the desire for riches and power, from the fact that they knew many crafts that had not been discovered before, and each one was exalted with his own handiwork; and so far did they carry their pride, that the Africans, descended from Ham, harried in that part of the world which the offspring of Shem, their kinsman, inhabited.
-- The Prose Edda: Prologue, by Snorre Sturleson 1178-1241

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 5:28-9:29

Death: 1998 B.C.

Burial: 138

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 5:32; 6:10; 7:11-13; 9:20-27: 10:21-22; 11:10-11
Data:
Text: "Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japeth the Elder, even to him were children born. The children of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram" 10:21-22 ... "These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad, two years after the flood. And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters." 11:10-11

Death: 1846 B.C.

Note: In his old age Noah shared the world with his sons: for Ham he intended the western region, for Japheth the northern region, but for Shem the southern region, with those parts which will hereafter be marked out in the division of the earth into three parts. In the time that the sons of these men were in the world, then increased forthwith the desire for riches and power, from the fact that they knew many crafts that had not been discovered before, and each one was exalted with his own handiwork; and so far did they carry their pride, that the Africans, descended from Ham, harried in that part of the world which the offspring of Shem, their kinsman, inhabited.
And when they had conquered them, the world seemed to them too small, and they smithied a tower with tile and stone, which they meant should reach to heaven, on the plain called Sennar. And when this building was so far advanced that it extended above the air, and they were no less eager to continue the work, and when God saw how their pride waxed high, then he sees that he will have to strike it down in some way.
And the same God, who is almighty, and who might have struck down all their work in the twinkling of an eye, and made themselves turn into dust, still preferred to frustrate their purpose by making them realize their own littleness, in that none of them should understand what the other talked; and thus no one knew what the other commanded, and one broke what the other wished to build up, until they came to strife among themselves, and therewith was frustrated, in the beginning, their purpose of building a tower. And he who was foremost, hight Zoroaster, he laughed before he wept when he came into the world; but the master-smiths were seventy-two, and so many tongues have spread over the world since the giants were dispersed over the land, and the nations became numerous.
In this same place was built the most famous city, which took its name from the tower, and was called Babylon.
And when the confusion of tongues had taken place, then increased the names of men and of other things, and this same Zoroaster had many names; and although he understood that his pride was laid low by the said building, still he worked his way unto worldly power, and had himself chosen king over many peoples of the Assyrians. From him arose the error of idolatry; and when he was worshiped he was called Baal; we call him Bel; he also had many other names.
But as the names increased in number, so was truth lost; and from this first error every following man worshiped his head-master, beasts or birds, the air and the heavenly bodies, and various lifeless things, until the error at length spread over the whole world; and so carefully did they lose the truth that no one knew his maker, excepting those men alone who spoke the Hebrew tongue,---that which flourished before the building of the tower,---and still they did not lose the bodily endowments that were given them, and therefore they judged of all things with earthly understanding, for spiritual wisdom was not given unto them. They deemed that all things were smithied of some one material.

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 5:32; 9:18-27; 10:1, 10:6, 20

Note: The father of all the Indo-European peoples, it would be surprising in deed if his name had gone unremembered among them. As it is, we find that the early Greeks worshipped him as Iapetos, or Iapetus, whom they regarded as the son of heaven (Ouranos) and earth (Gaia), the father of many nations. Likewise, in the ancient Sanskrit vedas of India he is remembered as Pra-Japati, the son and ostensible Lord of Creation. As time went by, his name was furthur corrupted, being assimilated into the Roman pantheon as Iupater, and eventually Jupiter. None of these names are of Greek, Indian, or Latin origin (although some claim Jupiter is a corruption of 'Deus Pater' -- God Father), but are merely corruptions of the original name Japheth. Both the early Irish Celts and the early Britons traced the descent of their royal houses from Japeth, as did also the early Saxons who corrupted his name to Scaef
--Cooper, 199

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 5:32, 6:10, 7:11-13, 9:20-27; 10:1-2
Data:
Text: "Noah these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were born sons after the flood. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meschech, and Tiras." Genesis 10:1-2

Burial: 137

Note: He was the founder of the Cimmerians who settled originally on the shores of the Caspian Sea. They were later driven away by the Elamites. At the time of the Babylonian Exile, the Jews knew them as the tribes that dwelt in the 'uppermost parts of the north' (Exekiel 38:6). The Assyrians referred to them as the Gimirraya. Esarhaddon (681-668 B.C.) records his defeat of the Gimirrai; whilst King Ashurbanipal tells us in his records of the Cimmerian invasion of Lydia in the days of the Lydian king Gugu around the year 660 B.C.
--Cooper, 199.

His wife is named in the Miautso tradition as Go-yong.
--E. Truax, Genesis According to the Miao People. Impact Article, April 1991, Institute for Creation Research. PO Box 2667, El Cajon, CA 92021

The nation of Illyria found it's name from Illyrius, the son of the Cyclops, Polyphemus, and his wife, the sea nymph, Galatea. Their three sons, Celtus, Galas, and Illyrius left Sicily and ruled over the people named after them - the Celts, the Galatians, and the Illyrians. Illyrius had many sons and daughters of which the Illyrian tribes like the Ardiaei, Autariatae, Dardani, Delmatae, Encheleae, Liburni, Paeones, and Taulanti received their name.
- Appian, The Illyrian Wars
Illyrius would probably be a descendant of Gomer -- ph

And the children of Gomer, according to their cities, were the Francum, who dwell in the land of Franza, by the river Franza, by the river Senah.
-Book of Jasher, 10:8

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:2-3
Data:
Text: "The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah

Note: His immediate descendants were known as the Magogites, being later known to the Greeks as the Scythians, according to the testimony of Josephus (1.vi.1), However, given the subsequent history of the people of Ashchenaz, who are far more certainly identified as the later Scythians (Gk. Skythai, and Assyrian Askuza), it is more likely that the early Magogites were assimilated into the peoples of Ashkenaz, thus making up merely a part of the Scythians hordes. The early Irish Celts traced their own lineage from Japheth through the line of Magog.

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:2
Data:
Text: "The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras."

Note: "The Medes consist of the following tribes: the Busae, Paretacenians, Struchates, Arizanti, Budians, and Magi. These are all the tribes of the Medes there are."
--Herodotus, Histories 1.101

His descendants were the Madaeans, who are better known to us as the Medes. The Assyrians recorded the name as Amada; the Greeks as the Medai; and the Old Persian inscriptions speak of them as the Mada. The earliest surviving reference to the Medes that is found in secular documents, appears in the inscriptions of Shalmaneser III, King of Assyria 858-824 B.C., in which he tells us that he invaded the land of the Medes to plunder them of their fine horses. Both Strabo and Herodotus confirm the fact that the Medes were of Indo-European (Japhetic) origin, and we know also that their language was of this group. After 631 B.C., the Medes joined with the people of Askuza and Gomer in an attmept to throw off the Assyrian yoke.
--Cooper, 201.


According to one source, Madai is identified with Shen Nung, who begat Ian and Medes. Ian went to China and was known as Yan.
--Zhou People Locator web site, http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/4241/

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:2
Data:
Text: The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Note: The name of Javan's descendants appears in Assyrian documents as the Iamanu, where we are told that they engaged the Assyrians in a major sea battle during the reign of King Sargon II (721-705 B.C.). The Archaemenian inscriptions refer to them as the Yauna. Homer tells us in the Iliad that Iawones was the progenitor of the Ionians (Gk. Iones), while the Hebrews knew the Greeks as the Jevanim. Pre-Islamic Arab cartographers gave the name as Yuban.
--Cooper, 201

The Median tribes were Busae, Parataceni, Struchates, Arizanti, Budii, Magi.
--Herodotus 1.101.

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:2, 10:4-5
Data:
Text: "The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras... And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided into their lands: every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations."

Burial: 136

Note: The descendants of Tubal first come to our notice in the inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser I, king of Assyria in about 1100 B.C. He refers to them as the Tabali whose original area of settlement (i.e. Tabal) was adjacent to Tegarma. Subsequently Josephus recorded the name of Tubal's descendants as the Thobelites, who were later known as the Iberes. Their land, in Josephus' day, was called by the Romans Iberia, and covered what is now the Republic of Georgia whose capital to this day bears the name Tubal as Tbilisi. From here, having crossed the Caucasus mountains, this people migrated due north-east, giving their tribal name to the river Tobol, and hence to the famous city of Tobolsk.
--Cooper, 203.

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:2
Data:
Text: "The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras."

Note: The descendants of Meshech are often spoken of in close association with those of Tubal, the Assyrians for example mentioning Tabal and Musku, whilst Herodotus writes of the Tiberanoi and Moschoi. A very much earlier reference to the people of Meshech is an inscription of ca. 1200 B.C. which tells us how the overran the Hittite kingdom; and an inscription of Tiglath-pileser I of Assyria from ca 1100 B.C., who tells us that, in his won day, the Muska-a-ia were able to put into the field an army of 20,000 men. The activities of this same people are also subsequently reported by Tukulti-ninurta II, Ashurnasipal II, Sargon, and Shalmaneser III, the last of whom refers to them as the Mushki. Josephus knew them as the Mosocheni (LXX Mosoch), whom, he says, were known in his own day as the Cappadocians. Some later writers have pointed out that the name of Meshech is preserved in the old tribal name of the Muscovites of Russia, after whom Moscow is named. Such an identification, it must be said, is not at all unlikely, especially when we consider the subsequent history of their historically close associates the people of Tubal, and the fact that the city is still known in the Russian tongue as Moskva, an exceedingly close, not to say identical relationship to the Assyrian form, Musku.
--Cooper, 204.

By the Georgian tradition, the name of the Mosch-Meschs is connected with the name of the Iberian capital - Mtskheta, In any case, there can be little doubt that the population who settled in Mtskhela were the bearers of the Hittite-Analolian cultural traditions. According to the scholars, the old Georgian gods of Mtskheta like Armazi, Zadeni, Gatsi and Ga correspond to the Anatolian deities: Arma, Santa, Atis and Kibela3.

As to some Georgian archaeologists, the active settlement of a new population, probably the Meschs, the bearers of the Hittite-Asia Minor traditions in the north, in Mtskheta, had already begun in the second part of the fourth century BC, and this fact caused the spread of a new type of culture in Eastern Georgia which was quite different from the local Late Bronze - Early Iron age traditions4.

It is remarkable that Josephus Flavius, the Jewish-Roman historian of the first century AD, considered the Moschs, as well as the Iberians, as being of Anatolian origin. In his commentary to the biblical "Meshech" he wrote that the Mosocheans were derived from Meshech and that they afterwards received the name of "Cappadocians", though from the designation of their capital "Mazaca", it is obvious that the name of all their tribes was the same. In the text of Eustates, Erzbishop of Antiochia, of the first half of the fourth century, as well as in the "Chronography" of the Byzantine writer Leon the Grammatikus, the name of this tribe is identical with the name of the ancient Georgian tribe of Meshs - ?es?????. The Georgian tribe of the Meschs lived in the Classical and Medieval times in the Moschian mountains - between Erzurum, Kars and Batumi.

By the information of Leo Allazius in the commentary to Josephus Flavius' above-mentioned fragment, the Meschians were a people known by the old authors as Moschikoi or Mosynoeci. At first they lived in the Pontic littoral and afterwards they had become Cappadocians, but finally they once again were forced to move to the north. It is known that Leo Allazius was acquainted with many books which are now lost.

--from THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TRANSCAUCASIAN AND ANATOLIAN POPULATIONS BY THE DATA OF THE GREEK AND LATIN LITERARY SOURCES by Giorgi Leon KAVTARADZE (Tbilisi), an article in THE THRACIAN WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATIONS I , Edited by Petre Roman. http://www.geocities.com/komblege/thracian.htm

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:2
Data:
Text: "The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras."

Note: Merenptah of Egypt, who reigned during the 13th century B.C., provides us with what is so far our earliest reference to the people of Tiras, recording their name as the Tursha (or Turusha), and referring to them as invaders from the north. The Greeks later knew them as the Tyrsenoi, a nation of marauding pirates. Josephus identifies them as the tribe who were known to the Romans as the Thirasians, and who we know as the Thracians. They were a 'ruddy and blue eyed people', who spent most of their time in a state of 'tipsy excess', as one authority puts it! Tiras himself was worshipped by his descendants as Thuras, (i.e. Thor) the God of War. The river Athyras was named after him, and it is not at all unlikely that the Etruscans, a nation of hitherto mysterious provenance, owe to him both their name and descent.
--Cooper, 204.

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:2
Data:
Text: "The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras."

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:3
Data:
Text: "And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Ripahath, and Togarmah."

Note: And the children of Rephath are the Bartonim, who dwell in the land of Bartonia by the river Ledah, which empties its waters in the great sea Gihon, that is, oceanus.

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Title: Bible

Page: Genesis 10:3
Data:
Text: "And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah."