What is the name of Noah’s wife in the Book of Jubilees?

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In the Book of Jubilees, Noah’s wife is named Emzara. Jubilees, an ancient Jewish work that retells and expands Genesis, gives this name in its account of Noah’s family.

The canonical Book of Genesis does not name Noah’s wife. That omission led later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions to preserve or invent different names for her. Emzara is the name used by Jubilees, where she is presented as the daughter of Rake’el and the mother of Shem, Ham, Japheth, and their sister.

This is why the answer depends on identifying the source text. Naamah is sometimes proposed in later traditions, but she is not named as Noah’s wife in Genesis. The Book of Jubilees is generally dated to the second century BCE and is also known as Little Genesis. It reorganizes biblical material into a chronological retelling, adding names and details that are absent from the Hebrew Bible’s Flood account.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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