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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 7:13
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, etc.] That is, on the seventeenth day of the second month; (see Gill on “<010711>Genesis 7:11”) the names of Noah and his three sons are expressed, but not the names of his wife, and of the wives of his sons; they are only described by their relation as follows: and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons, into the ark: but other writers pretend to give us their names; Berosus f424 calls the wife of Noah “Tytea”, the great, and Aretia, plainly from “Tit”, clay, and “Aerets”, the earth; and his sons’ wives Pandora, Noela, and Noegla: according to Sanchoniatho f425, the name of Noah was “Epigeus”, a man of the earth, (see <010920>Genesis 9:20) and afterwards “Ouranus”, heaven; and he had a sister whom he married, called “Ge”, earth; and with this agrees the account that the Allantes give of their deities; the first of which was Uranus, and his wife’s name was Titaea; who, after her death, was deified, and called “Ge” f426: so the Jewish writers say f427, the wife of Noah was called Titzia, and others say Aritzia, from the word “Eretz”, earth f428; though others will have it, that she was Naamah, the daughter of Lamech: the Arabic writers f429 tell us, that the name of Noah’s wife was Hancel, the daughter of Namusa, the son of Enoch; that the name of Shem’s wife was Zalbeth, or, as other copies, Zalith or Salit; that the name of Ham’s Nahalath; and of Japheth’s Aresisia; who were all three the daughters of Methuselah; and they also relate f430, that when Noah entered the ark, he took the body of Adam with him, and placed it in the middle of the ark.
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