Noah was born only 4 years after Enoch and his city were taken from the earth. He lived in a time when very few men were righteous. We are told that his grandfather, Methuselah, ordained him to the priesthood at ten years old. I have been unable to settle on whether Methuselah was right in doing so because we are told later that God ordained Noah unto His Own Priesthood sometime later. Noah’s father died a few years before the flood and his grandfather died in the year of the flood (if not in the flood itself) by which time only Noah and his three sons were left righteous. Who knows if he had sons before Ham (he was 450 when Ham was born – 150 years before the flood) but we are told that even the daughters of Noah had joined the people in their wickedness. Noah didn’t get his whole family saved.
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