LXX Gen 11:10–26: Shem’s line, the ages and Kainan

Says 11:10 opens αὗται αἱ γενέσεις Σήμ (γένεσις, “origin, lineage”) for אֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת שֵׁם, and dates the birth δευτέρου ἔτους μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμόν, “in the second year,” where שְׁנָתַיִם אַחַר הַמַּבּוּל says “two years.”

Says Swete’s 11:12 ends ἐγέννησεν τὸν Καινάν, and its 11:13 also holds Kainan’s 130 and 330 years, with no verse numbers of their own; Sala is then Kainan’s son. The page spells Καινάν here, where 10:24 has Καινάμ, Abbott-Smith’s headword (“Son of Arphaxad”). The Bodleian Genesis’s first hand lacks Kainan’s two clauses; a corrector supplies them in the margin.

Says Six begetting ages are a hundred higher than the MT, as ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα πέντε for חָמֵשׁ וּשְׁלֹשִׁים at 11:12; Nachor’s is fifty higher, ἑβδομήκοντα ἐννέα for תֵּשַׁע וְעֶשְׂרִים; Shem’s and Thara’s match. Remaining years differ for Arphaxad (430, MT 403), Sala (330, MT 403), Eber (370, MT 430) and Nachor (129, MT 119). At 11:12 the Bodleian Genesis’s first hand has thirty-five; a corrector supplies “and a hundred” in the margin.

Says Each remaining-years clause in 11:11–25 ends καὶ ἀπέθανεν, which the MT lacks; neither text gives totals here.

Uncertain Luke 3:36 also names Cainan; no lean is taken on which list gives the chronology or whether Kainan stood in the original text.