Noah son of Lamech 
Noah was born in Shulon, East Eden. Noah's father was Lamech son of Methuselah. His paternal grandfather was Methuselah son of Enoch. He had two brothers, and also a sibling of unknown gender named Tubal-Cain, Jubal and Naamah. He died in Salem (Jerusalem), Canaan.General Notes
Noah, in the Old Testament, son of Lamech, tenth in descent from Adam, and, as survivor with his family of the flood (see Deluge), the father of all humanity (see Genesis 6-9). According to the biblical account, Noah was spared for his piety when God, angered at the corruption of the world, destroyed it with a flood lasting 40 days and 40 nights. Noah had been warned to build the ark, a great ship, and to take on board with him his wife, his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons' wives, and two mated specimens of every species of animal on earth. In an episode after the flood, Noah is portrayed as having discovered winemaking and becoming helplessly drunk (see Genesis 9:20-27). Noah is said to have lived 950 years (see Genesis 9:29). Similar heroes of flood stories are found in Babylonian, Greek, and other cultures (see Deucalion).
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b. in Cainan, East Eden d. in Cainan, East Eden
- b. in Cainan, East Eden d. in Cainan, East Eden
- b. in Cainan, East Eden d. in Zion, East Eden
- b. in Zion, East Eden d. in Shulon, East Eden
- b. in Zion, East Eden d. in Shulon, East Eden
- b. in Shulon, East Eden d. in Salem (Jerusalem), Canaan
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