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Today, Seth has crossed over the Atlantic to settle in Denver, after spending a short while in a suburb just east of Cleveland, Ohio. There, he had attended a private high school. Although his age is nearing several millenia, he seems to be keeping decently well, concerned only with his massive feelings of guilt regarding the unfortunate circumnstance that his sister's IP address can be recorded publicly in this page's edit history, and as such her laptop will soon be on the wikipedian master's (or masters' he dos not know how it is set up/controlled) blacklist, preventing her from directing any truthygoodness in the world. |
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Today, Seth now resides in a small suburb east of Cleveland, Ohio. Although his age is nearing several millenia, Seth still attends a private high school in order to blend in with his fellow believers. |
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Seth (Hebrew: שֵׁת, Standard Šet, Tiberian Šēṯ; Template:Lang-ar Shith or Shiyth; "Placed; appointed"), in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, is the third listed son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who are the only other of their children mentioned by name. According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after the slaying of Abel by Cain, and Eve believed God had appointed him as replacement for Abel, whom Cain had killed.
In the Hebrew Bible
According to Genesis, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old[1] (but according to the Septuagint Adam was 230 years old[2]), "a son in his likeness and image."[1] The genealogy is repeated, without the chronology, at 1 Chronicles 1:1–3. According to Seder Olam Rabbah, based on Jewish reckoning, he was born in 130 AM. The Book of Jubilees also dates his birth to 130 AM,[3] but according to the Septuagint it was in 230 AM. Genesis 5:4–5 states that Adam fathered "sons and daughters" before his "death", aged 930 years. According to Aggadah, Adam had 33 sons and 23 daughters.
In Genesis 4:25 there is a play on Seth's name which sounds similar to the Hebrew word for "set, place, put" (syt). Eve says, "God has set me other offspring".
According to the Book of Jubilees, in 231 AM Seth married his sister, Azura, who was 4 years younger than him. In the year 235 AM, Azura gave birth to Enos.[3]
According to Genesis, Seth had a son, Enos, at age 105[4], and further sons and daughters. Seth's only named grandson was Kenan, son of Enos,[5] who was born when Seth was 195 years old. Seth was 265 when his great-grandson Mahalalel was born,[6] and 330 when his great-great-grandson Jared was born.[7] Seth lived to see three more generations.
Seth lived to an age of 912.[8] According to the Seder Olam Rabbah, he died in 1042 AM, and 1142 AM according to the Septuagint.
In Judaism
Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi) refers to Seth as the ancestor of Noah and hence the father of all mankind, all other humans having perished in the Great Flood.
In gnosticism, Seth is seen as a replacement given by God for Abel, whom Cain had slain. It is said that late in life, Adam gave Seth secret teachings that would become the kabbalah. The Zohar refers to Seth as "ancestor of all the generations of the tzaddikim" (Hebrew: righteous ones).[9]
In Josephus
In the Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and reports that his descendants invented the wisdom of the heavenly bodies, and built the "pillars of the sons of Seth", two pillars inscribed with many scientific discoveries and inventions, notably in astronomy. They were built by Seth's descendants based on Adam's prediction that the world would be destroyed at one time by fire and another time by global flood, in order to protect the discoveries and be remembered after the destruction. One was composed of brick, and the other of stone, so that if the pillar of brick should be destroyed, the pillar of stone would remain, both reporting the ancient discoveries, and informing men that a pillar of brick was also erected. Josephus reports that the pillar of stone remained in the land of Siriad in his day.
William Whiston, a 17/18th century translator of the Antiquities, stated in a footnote that he believed Josephus mistook Seth for Sesostris, king of Egypt, the erector of the referenced pillar in Siriad (being a contemporary name for the territories in which Sirius was venerated, i.e., Egypt). He stated that there was no way for any pillars of Seth to survive the deluge, because the deluge buried all such pillars and edifices far underground in the sediment of its waters.
In Christianity
The 2nd century BC Book of Jubilees, regarded as non-canonical except by Coptic Christianity, says that in 231 AM Seth married his sister, Azura, who was 4 years younger than him. In the year 235 AM, Azura gave birth to Enos.[3]
Seth is commemorated as one of the Holy Forefathers in the Calendar of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with Adam, Abel, and others, with a feast day on July 26. He is also included in the Genealogy of Jesus, according to Luke 3:23–28.[10]
In Modern Day
Today, Seth has crossed over the Atlantic to settle in Denver, after spending a short while in a suburb just east of Cleveland, Ohio. There, he had attended a private high school. Although his age is nearing several millenia, he seems to be keeping decently well, concerned only with his massive feelings of guilt regarding the unfortunate circumnstance that his sister's IP address can be recorded publicly in this page's edit history, and as such her laptop will soon be on the wikipedian master's (or masters' he dos not know how it is set up/controlled) blacklist, preventing her from directing any truthygoodness in the world.
See also
References
- ^ a b Genesis 5:3
- ^ Septuagint, Genesis
- ^ a b c The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, R.H. Charles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. Book of Jubilees 4:7-13. ISBN 978-0974762371.
- ^ Genesis 5:6
- ^ Genesis 5:9
- ^ Genesis 5:12
- ^ Genesis 5:15
- ^ Genesis 5:8
- ^ Zohar 1:36b
- ^ Luke 3:23–38