Emzara in the Genesis Apocryphon

I went and took Emzara his daughter as my wife.

Source: 1QapGen

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Noah’s wife is not identified by name in the biblical text, leaving an opportunity for later writers to provide this information themselves. The name Emzara (or Emzera), literally “mother of seed,” is given to Noah’s wife in the book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon. 

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