Chapter 3: From Enoch to Noah
Study activity, printable worksheet, explained answers, and source references for your chapter.
Printed chapter: pages 17-22. Complete connected chart: pages 98–145. These page references match the reviewed manuscript.
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Put numbers beside events
Use Genesis 5-9 and 11:10. Make cards for Noah’s birth, Shem’s birth, the Flood’s beginning, the ark resting, and departure. Younger learners can order the events; older learners can add the numerical inputs and verses. Keep the onset of rain separate from the entire stay in the ark.
Find the detail on the chart, identify what each number measures, and record the source used for your explanation.
Practice questions and explained answers
Try the worksheet first. Tap a question to reveal its explanation.
1. Why should Enoch’s endpoint have different wording?
Genesis 5:24 describes God taking him. Preserve that wording rather than silently labeling the endpoint an ordinary death.
2. How does the sequence obtain Noah’s birth at AM 1056?
Lamech’s calculated birth at AM 874 plus his 182 years to Noah’s birth gives 1056.
3. Why does Adams use 502 at Shem’s birth?
In Adams’ year-coordinate reckoning, Shem was 100 two years after the Flood, so 98 at the Flood. Noah was then 600: 600 - 98 = 502.
4. Calculate Adams’ Flood coordinate.
1056 + 600 = AM 1656. Within Adams’ 4004 BC framework, 4004 - 1656 = 2348 BC. This explains his chronology.
5. Does Methuselah’s ending in that year prove drowning?
No. A shared year-coordinate establishes neither the cause nor the exact day of death. Adams’ annotation places his death before the Deluge.
6. Which ark dimensions come directly from Genesis?
The 300 by 50 by 30 cubits of Genesis 6:15. Modern-unit and tonnage estimates require additional assumptions.
Complete connected chart
Download all four parts and print in order, at actual size (100%). These contain one complete set of 48 numbered chart tiles, divided into four downloads. Follow the tile labels to connect the chart. Use the chapter enlargements for small lettering.
- Chart part 1 of 4 — tiles 1–12
- Chart part 2 of 4 — tiles 13–24
- Chart part 3 of 4 — tiles 25–36
- Chart part 4 of 4 — tiles 37–48
Sources to consult
These are the chapter’s source references, not quotations from those works. Use the named title, institution, record number, or passage to locate the source. Some external sources may have access restrictions.
- Genesis 5:18-32; chapters 6-9, King James Version.
- Israel Antiquities Authority, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Featured Scrolls, Enoch, 4Q Enoch a. The institutional record identifies the Aramaic manuscript and its pre-Christian date range.
- Genesis 10 and 11:10-11, KJV.
- American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Statement on Race and Racism, accepted 27 March 2019; published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 169(3), pages 400-402.
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