Who did the offspring of Noah mate with after the flood? Each other? Isn't that incest?

Question

And isn't incest strictly forbiden in the same Bible that touts the "Noah's Ark" story as true?

Hypocritical?

Answer 1

You can go back before that. I didn't see Adam and Eve having any daughters - just 3 sons.

Answer 2

You look more like a Holly than a Hottie, but never the less,

Hottie
you ask a question I suppose to see what kind of answers you would get.

here is one I don't suspect you were going to get. First, the flood was to destroy the people God chose to destroy. There are questions of the bloodline being contaminated.

as for marrying folks, others have told you that this is incess and christians over look that. No we don't, we know it took place. But just like you, they were lonily and wanted someone to be with and thus they were with siblings or in the case of noah's family, cousins.

I realize that you don't see things the way people who study the bible see them, and that is okay. But I ask you, if you were given a choice of dying in your sins or being saved, which one would you chose?

Noah's ark, the great flood, or Jesus being incarnate God, are all matters of faith don't you think it is worth your time to find out if these matters are real?

one of your answers says it's Gods Word and you should not question it,

that is not the case,

the bible repeatedly commands you to test the bible, try the bible, check the reliability and see if the matters are not true.
this is not the koran that if you question it, someone will kill you, this is the Word of God that demands a much closer look, a detailed examination of it, and try it with the most comprehensive test you can to see if it stands up to scrutiny.

your eternity hangs in the balance. I wish you the best,

Answer 3

Here's the true story of Noah:

The traditions of a time when water covered the whole of the earth's surface are universal. Many races harbor the story of a world-wide flood some time during past ages. The Biblical story of Noah, the ark, and the flood is an invention of the Hebrew priesthood during the Babylonian captivity.

But Noah really lived; he was a wine maker of Aram, a river settlement near Erech in the Euphrates valley. The river dwellers were accustomed to rivers overflowing their banks at certain seasons; these periodic floods were annual events in their lives. But new perils threatened the valley of Mesopotamia as a result of progressive geologic changes to the north.

For thousands of years the highlands about the eastern coast of the Mediterranean and those to the northwest and northeast of Mesopotamia continued to rise. This elevation of the highlands was greatly accelerated about 5000 B.C., and this, together with greatly increased snowfall on the northern mountains, caused unprecedented floods each spring throughout the Euphrates valley. These spring floods grew increasingly worse so that eventually the inhabitants of the river regions were driven to the eastern highlands. For almost a thousand years scores of cities were practically deserted because of these extensive deluges.

Noah kept a written record of the days of the river's rise from year to year. He brought much ridicule upon himself by going up and down the river valley advocating that all houses be built of wood, boat fashion, and that the family animals be put on board each night as the flood season approached. He would go to the neighboring river settlements every year and warn them that in so many days the floods would come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire village; only Noah and his immediate family were saved in their houseboat.

Almost five thousand years later, as the Hebrew priests in Babylonian captivity sought to trace the Jewish people back to Adam, they found great difficulty in piecing the story together; and it occurred to one of them to abandon the effort, to let the whole world drown in its wickedness at the time of Noah's flood, and thus to be in a better position to trace Abraham right back to one of the three surviving sons of Noah.

Answer 4

Well, in fact the book says Noah brought some females too along with the ride. Plus, there's the whole "Adam and Eve" thing, but it's quite methaporical.
Science says that there was the amniotic soup in the oceans, then came an amoeba, the amoeba split and became two amoebas, the amoebas became many, then pluricellular life then men.
God made Adam, then split him and made Eve, then Adam and Eve made Humanity.
Is the same thing, only ancient Hebrew didn't know about amoebas.

Answer 5

It is clear that you have not read the Bible. You seem only to want to poke at our beliefs.
To answer your question, There were 8 people on the Ark. More than enough to re-populate.
Further descendants would be cousin marriages.
Later, much later in the Law given to the Jews, yes, there ARE laws against incest.
It is VERY specific about who may not with who.
Cousin marriages are NOT listed, therefore are acceptable.

Answer 6

Technically, the "flood" didn't cover the entire world, just the world that Noah knew about.
So when the water receeded his family mated with people of other lands that were not touched by the flood.

It's just like how Adam and Eve weren't the only people on earth at the time. Where do you think the land of Nod came from?

Answer 7

Actually if you read the Bible, the sons of Noah were married and the wives were on the Ark with Noah, his wife, and his three sons.

Genesis 7:13
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

Answer 8

It just kills me that some of you people are trying to explain this b.s. It's all made up, just like the WMD stories, or the bread falling from the sky, 2 loaves of bread and a fish head fed a million people, while some hippie was turning water into wine. I can keep going but a lot of you are chomping at the bit to thumb me down....

Answer 9

If you'll read the story of Noah in the Bible, it clearly says "In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japeth, the three sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;" .

Noah and his wife survived along with their 3 sons and their WIVES. No incest

Answer 10

Before you asks questions like this read the Bible. Noah's sons had wives.And the Bible is God's Words not to be questioned.

Answer 11

we are living in a civilized society having civil & criminal laws. If you compare the law of those days of ADAM& EVE, (2). NOAH the INCEST was not forbidden & Is allowed, let it be so.
Does it mean we follow it now ?