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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.
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.
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
