Noah
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Noah appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible, the Quran and Baha'i writings, and extracanonically.
Detail from Noah with the animals in front of the ark by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c. 1650
12th-century Venetian mosaic depiction of Noah sending the dove
Noah curses Ham by Gustave Doré
Genesis Apocryphon, a portion of the Dead Sea Scrolls that features Noah
Shem
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Shem is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible.
Noah
…Lamech, is the tenth and final antediluvian (pre-flood) patriarch. Lamech is 182 years old when Noah is born, and Noah is 500 years old when his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth are born. Lamech anticipated that Noah would "bring relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands". The Genesis flood…
Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553) by Guillaume Rouillé