The Apparent Cainan Contradiction in Luke 3.36

In Luke 3.36 Cainan appears as the father of Sala and the son of Arphaxad. This has been alleged to contradict the Old Testament genealogies of the ‘generations of Shem’ recorded in Genesis 10.24 and 11.12, and in 1 Chronicles 1.18 where Salah (or Shelah, in Chronicles) appears as the son of Arphaxad with no intervening Cainan. This article examines and explains this apparent discrepancy.

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