SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:32
Y siendo Noé de quinientos años, engendró a Sem, a Cam, y a Jafet.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 5:32
Verse 32. Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.] From Genesis x. 21; 1 Chron. i. 5, &c., we learn that Japheth was the eldest son of Noah, but Shem is mentioned first, because it was from him, in a direct line, that the Messiah came. Ham was certainly the youngest of Noah's sons, and from what we read, Genesis ix. 22, the worst of them; and how he comes to be mentioned out of his natural order is not easy to be accounted for. When the Scriptures design to mark precedency, though the subject be a younger son or brother, he is always mentioned first; so Jacob is named before Esau, his elder brother, and Ephraim before Manasses. See chap. xxviii. 5; xlviii. 20. AMONG many important things presented to our view in this chapter, several of which have been already noticed, we may observe that, of all the antediluvian patriarchs, Enoch, who was probably the best man, was the shortest time upon earth; his years were exactly as the days in a solar revolution, viz., three hundred and sixty-five; and like the sun he fulfilled a glorious course, shining more and more unto the perfect day, and was taken, when in his meridian splendour, to shine like the sun in the kingdom of his Father for ever.
From computation it appears, 1. That Adam lived to see Lamech, the ninth generation, in the fifty-sixth year of whose life he died; and as he was the first who lived, and the first that sinned, so he was the first who tasted death in a natural way. Hebel's was not a natural but a violent death. 2. That Enoch was taken away next after Adam, seven patriarchs remaining witness of his translation. 3. That all the nine first patriarchs were taken away before the flood came, which happened in the six hundredth year of Noah's life. 4. That Methuselah lived till the very year in which the flood came, of which his name is supposed to have been prophetical wtm methu, ""he dieth,"" and jl shalach, ""he sendeth out;"" as if God had designed to teach men that as soon as Methuselah died the flood should be sent forth to drown an ungodly world. If this were then so understood, even the name of this patriarch contained in it a gracious warning. See the genealogical plate after chap. xi.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-32 - Methuselah signifies, `he dies, there is a dart,' `a sending forth, namely, of the deluge, which came the year that Methuselah died. He lived 969 years, the longest that any man ever lived on earth; but the longest liver must die at last. Noah signifies rest; his parents gav him that name, with a prospect of his being a great blessing to his generation. Observe his father's complaint of the calamitous state of human life, by the entrance of sin, and the curse of sin. Our whol life is spent in labour, and our time filled up with continual toil God having cursed the ground, it is as much as some can do, with the utmost care and pains, to get a hard livelihood out comfort us." I signifies not only that desire and expectation which parents generall have about their children, that they will be comforts to them an helpers, though they often prove otherwise; but it signifies also prospect of something more. Is Christ ours? Is heaven ours? We nee better comforters under our toil and sorrow, than the dearest relation and the most promising offspring; may we seek and find comforts in Christ __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 נח 5146 בן 1121 חמשׁ 2568 מאות 3967 שׁנה 8141 ויולד 3205 נח 5146 את 853 שׁם 8035 את 853 חם 2526 ואת 853 יפת׃ 3315
