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Adam and the Generations to Noah

Chapter 1

1 The beginning of the world. Adam fathered three sons and one daughter: Cain, Noaba, Abel, and Seth. 2 After he fathered Seth, Adam lived 700 years and fathered 12 sons and 8 daughters.⁠ 3 These are the names of the sons: Eliseel, Suris, Elamiel, Brabal, Naat, Zarama, Zasam, Maathal, and Anath. 4 These are his daughters: Phua, Iectas, Arebica, Sifa, Tecia, Saba, Asin. 5 Seth lived 105 years and fathered Enos. After he fathered Enos, Seth lived 707 years and fathered 3 sons and 2 daughters. 6 The names of his sons were Elidia, Phonna, and Matha; and of his daughters, Malida and Thila. 7 Enos lived 180 years and fathered Cainan. After he fathered Cainan, Enos lived 715 years and fathered 2 sons and a daughter. 8 The names of his sons were Phoë and Thaal; and of his daughter, Catennath. 9 Cainan lived 520 years and fathered Malalech. After he fathered Malalech, Cainan lived 730 years and fathered 3 sons and 2 daughters. 10 The names of the sons were Athach, Socer, and Lopha; and the names of the daughters, Ana and Leua. 11 Malalech lived 165 years and fathered Jareth. After he fathered Jareth, Malalech lived 730 years and fathered 7 sons and 5 daughters. 12 The names of the sons were Leta, Matha, Cethar, Melie, Suriel, Lodo, and Othim. The names of the daughters were Ada, Noa, Iebal, Mada, and Sella. 13 Jareth lived 172 years and fathered Enoch. After he fathered Enoch, Jareth lived 800 years and fathered 4 sons and 2 daughters. 14 The names of the sons were Lead, Anac, Soboac, and Iectar; and of the daughters, Tetzeco and Lesse. 15 Enoch lived 165 years and fathered Matusalam. After he fathered Matusalam, Enoch lived 200 years and fathered 5 sons and 3 daughters. 16 But Enoch pleased God at that time and was not found, for God took him up. 17 The names of his sons are Anaz, Zeum, Achaun, Pheledi, and Elith; and of the daughters, Theiz, Lefith, and Leath. 18 Matusalam lived 187 years and fathered Lamech. After he fathered Lamech, Matusalam lived 782 years and fathered 2 sons and 2 daughters. 19 The names of the sons were Inab and Rapho; and of the daughters, Aluma and Amuga. 20 Lamech lived 182 years and fathered a son, and named him Noah according to his birth, saying, “This child will give rest to us and to the earth from those who are in it, on whom a reckoning will come because of the wickedness of their evil deeds.” 21 After he fathered Noah, Lamech lived 585 years. 22 Noah lived 300 years and fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Compare Jubilees 4:10 and Pseudo Philo, Biblical Antiquities 1:2

Pseudepigrapha, Hebrew Bible Expansions · Classical

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Summary

Jubilees adds that Adam and Eve had nine children after Seth, a detail absent from Genesis but similar to Pseudo-Philo, where Adam and Eve had twelve sons and eight daughters. Both build on the Genesis story to fill in narrative gaps.

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Jubilees 4:10

Pseudepigrapha, Hebrew Bible Expansions
9 And Cain took Âwân his sister to be his wife and she bore him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee [190-196]. And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, [197] houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city, and named it after his son Enoch. 10 And Adam knew Eve his wife and she bore nine more sons. 11 And in the fifth week of the fifth jubilee [225-31] Seth took Azûrâ his sister to be his wife, and in the fourth (year of the sixth week) [235] she bore him Enosh.
170–125 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Jubilees

Pseudo Philo, Biblical Antiquities 1:2

Classical
1 The beginning of the world. Adam fathered three sons and one daughter: Cain, Noaba, Abel, and Seth. 2 After he fathered Seth, Adam lived 700 years and fathered 12 sons and 8 daughters. 3 These are the names of the sons: Eliseel, Suris, Elamiel, Brabal, Naat, Zarama, Zasam, Maathal, and Anath. 4 These are his daughters: Phua, Iectas, Arebica, Sifa, Tecia, Saba, Asin.
1–100 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in Pseudo Philo, Biblical Antiquities

References

"... Jubilees 4:10 ... Eve subsequently gave birth to nine more children: This is not mentioned in Genesis, but Adam and Eve’s additional children do figure elsewhere in Second Temple writings: according to Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities 1:2, they had “twelve sons and eight daughters” after the birth of Seth ..."
James L. Kugel, A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 46.

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