Moses 8: 12

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CHAPTER 8

(February 1831)

12 And Noah was four hundred and fifty years old, and ^abegat Japheth; and forty-two years afterward he begat ^bShem of her who was the mother of Japheth, and when he was five hundred years old he begat ^cHam.

Footnotes

12a	Gen. 5: 32. 32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah ^abegat ^bShem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen. 9: 18 (18-27). 18 ¶ And the ^asons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
b	1 Chr. 1: 4. 4 Noah, ^aShem, Ham, and Japheth.
c	Abr. 1: 11 (11-27). 11 Now, this priest had offered upon this altar three virgins at one time, who were the daughters of Onitah, one of the royal descent directly from the loins of ^aHam. These virgins were offered up because of their virtue; they would not ^bbow down to worship gods of wood or of stone, therefore they were killed upon this altar, and it was done after the manner of the Egyptians.