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Help me with a bible question! Please!

52 replies

EastLow · 30/06/2016 10:05

Hi, I'm just wondering if someone could please tell me Noah's relatives, in the bible, and who they are. Would be most appreciated x

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SmoakAndShado · 30/06/2016 11:02

Ex wife, we did that one too! Think it's captain Noah & his floating ark?

I remember "careful with the lights, feed the beasts in batches" coz durin one rehearsal, one of the teachers was sorting the lights & shouted down " I am being careful!"

But I came on to say that the Mesopotamian version in the epic of Gilgamesh names Noah as Utnapishtim - he & his wife are granted immortality by their gods & the reason for the flood is not sin but people being too noisy!

JaneJeffer · 30/06/2016 11:01

It's not really an AIBU but what's wrong with asking something you could have googled. People do it all the time on here, including me! My favourite Noah's ark thing 9gag.com/gag/ae0OWqb/if-noah-s-ark-were-a-facebook-newsfeed Grin

NotBadConsidering · 30/06/2016 11:00

Hi, man here seeking advice, please be gentle!

DW has told me she's pregnant. It can't be mine as we haven't had sex for months. I thought we just had differing libidos and didn't want to pester her. Anyway she says she hasn't been having an affair and she got pregnant from an angel who told her it would be the Son of God. I'm not sure if I believe her. I work hard as a carpenter all day so don't spend much time at home and she's been acting weird for ages now. Is she cheating or should I be grateful she's been chosen for such a monumental thing? Thanks in advance.

MargaretCavendish · 30/06/2016 11:00

Look, Job, to be honest this God sounds like a narcissist. I'd recommend going NC.

JessieMcJessie · 30/06/2016 11:00

JFGI

HTH

sorenofthejnaii · 30/06/2016 10:58

Mumsnet would have had a field day with the bible

Especially Old Testament God

My people have stopped believing in me. AIBU to wipe them out with a flood?

NotBadConsidering · 30/06/2016 10:56

Mumsnet would have had a field day with the bible:

AIBU to think that Jezebel is only a target of abuse because she's a woman in a position of power? Is this really the Scriptures We Want?

NorksAreMessy · 30/06/2016 10:53

oh, yes, I can help

NiteFlights · 30/06/2016 10:52

exWife there is Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo. But I'm not sure that's the one you're talking about.

constantlycuntinglyconfused · 30/06/2016 10:48

Just had a look at the family tree. I had no idea that there were such complicated trees and I didn't know Levi was a biblical name. Every day's a school day!

PrivatePike · 30/06/2016 10:46

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exWifebeginsat40 · 30/06/2016 10:46

we did a Noah musical at my primary school. nobody else in the world has any recollection of such a thing. i was a bumble bee. here is a song which i can still recall 35 years later!

then Japeth Shem and Ham
fetched a ewe sheep and a ram
duck and drake and bull and cow and cock and hen
male and female spotted cheetahs
armadillos and anteaters
(something something) and two lions in a den

have i dreamed this entire episode?

sorenofthejnaii · 30/06/2016 10:46

Noah lived to a ripe old age, didn't he?

user1465823522 · 30/06/2016 10:44

Children: Japheth, Shem, Ham, Yam
Parents: Betenos, Lamech
Grandparents: Methuselah, Barakil, Edna
Grandchildren: Arpachshad, Canaan, Mizraim, Cush, Meshech, more
Great-grandparents: Enoch, Idris, Edna, Azrial

Google is awesome

sorenofthejnaii · 30/06/2016 10:42

DH has said he has been told by God to build a giant ark because the world is going to be flooded. He wants to put a pair of all animals in there to save them.

AIBU to LTB?

runslikethewind · 30/06/2016 10:41

Many apologies if this comes across as sarcastic but I wouldn't be able to tell you without reading the bible or looking on google, it's such a specific biblical question many people would need to do this. I'm interested to know why you need to know, school project?

pointythings · 30/06/2016 10:35

I only know Ham. No idea if he was naice.

Purplemonkeydishwasherpimp · 30/06/2016 10:34

What tigermoll said

user1467101855 · 30/06/2016 10:33

There are hundreds of them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_the_Bible#Sons_of_Noah

You can use mumsnet but you can't find google, wikipedia (or even Chat)?

tigermoll · 30/06/2016 10:32

I'm not sure why this is in AIBU....unless it's "AIBU for not bothering to google this myself, and instead asking MN?"

In which case, YABU

pearlylum · 30/06/2016 10:31

Very funny.

mrsmortis · 30/06/2016 10:29

allegretto I had that argument with a street preacher on Times Square many moons ago. He was trying to tell anyone that would listen that having black skin was the mark of Cain and therefore everyone of African Descent was doomed.

He didn't like it when I asked how they had survived the flood.

allegretto · 30/06/2016 10:26

If only Noah and his family were on the Ark then we must all be his family obviously. Unless we are the descendants of the monkeys...oh wait a minute...

ShowOfHands · 30/06/2016 10:21

YABU

Shouldwestayorshouldwegonow · 30/06/2016 10:20

Are we Google now Grin