Donna Danna (21 March 2012)
"REPLY TO PATTI C. -- THE FLOOD AND THE GIANTS"


In reply to your 3/20 post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2012/pattic320-3.htm I honestly don't agree with your line of reasoning in the following two paragraphs in which you stated:
 
"The pure seed line of Seth ends with Noah. We know this because the Lord mentions that everyone in Seth’s seed line produces both sons and daughters. After every descendent in the genealogy of Seth it states this: “and begat sons and daughters”. Only the sons are mentioned in Cain’s seed line with the above exception of Naamah."
"It is most likely that if a Sethite man married a Cainite woman, they could only have sons, but if a Sethite woman married a Cainite man, they could have both sons and daughters. We know that Noah was the last of the pure seed line because in the genealogy of Seth, Noah is the last person mentioned and we see that Noah had three sons, and no mention of daughters."
 
The pure seed line of Seth did not end with Noah just because Noah had 3 sons and no daughters.  The so called pure seed line which I have heard referred to as a righteous line from which Jesus was born continued with Noah's son Shem right on down through Nahor, and these 9 men listed in the genealogy all had sons and daughters if you read their genealogy in Genesis 11:10-25.  However, the Bible tells us in Genesis 11:26 that Nahor's son Terah had 3 sons who were named Abram, Nahor, and Haran, but Terah had no daughters.  So the pure seed or righteous line doesn't depend on whether a man has both sons and daughters.  In fact according to the Bible, Adam had 3 sons with no mention of any daughters either.  So the pure seed or righteous line did not stop with Adam, Noah or with Terah, all of which had 3 sons and no daughters.  Then Terah's son Abram had 2 sons (Ishmael and Isaac), and the Bible doesn't mention Abram having daughters.  Then Isaac has 2 sons (Esau and Jacob) and the Bible doesn't mention Isaac having any daughters either.  So the genealogy of Jesus' mother Mary and step-father Joseph can be traced all the way back to Adam according to Luke 3:23-38 and to Abraham in Matthew 1:1-17.  Having sons and daughters or not has nothing to do with being righteous or evil.
 
In regard to the "giants' that you mentioned in Numbers 33:13, please check the chapter and verse because I think you are referring to Numbers 13:33 which says, "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."  The first word "giants" in that verse is Storng's Hebrew word #1368 while the second word "giants" is word # 7497.  Also the word "giants" is last used in the book of Joshua; there is no book called Josiah in the Bible.