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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Sheth (Man living at the time before the Flood)

Not a man. Balaam's oracle says a coming ruler of Israel will crush all the sons of Sheth, and most modern translations read it as sons of tumult.

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Not a man. Balaam's oracle says a coming ruler of Israel will crush all the sons of Sheth, and most modern translations read it as sons of tumult.

Who this is

Sheth here is not the name of a person but part of a phrase in Balaam's oracle predicting that a coming ruler of Israel will crush all the sons of Sheth (Numbers 24:17). Most modern translations render this sons of tumult rather than treating Sheth as a proper name, understanding it as poetic language for Israel's warlike neighbors, likely Moab. It is unrelated to the antediluvian patriarch Seth, who is recorded separately.

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  • Numbers 24:17

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