[hermitcrab]

There were 8: Noah, his wife, their three sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth), and their three wives. If so, there must have been a whole of inbreeding in later generations.

Aside: The biblical story of the Ark and the flood in ripped off wholesale from Sumerian and Akkadian narratives.

[esafak]

You mean God sent word to the Sumerians and Akkadians !

[hermitcrab]

He also told them the story of Moses being found in the reeds, for them to pass on.