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Emzara, Wife of Noah, in Extrabiblical Literature
3rd–1st Century BCE
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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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Emzara in Jubilees
In the twenty-fifth jubilee Noah married a woman whose name was Emzara, the daughter of Barakiel, the daughter of his father’s brother—during the first year in the fifth week [1205]. In its third year…
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Emzara in the Genesis Apocryphon
I went and took Emzara his daughter as my wife.
Source: 1QapGen