Which three sons of Noah are named in the Genesis Flood narrative?

The three sons of Noah named in the Genesis Flood narrative are Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis introduces the names before the Flood and later places the three men aboard the Ark with Noah and their wives. After the waters recede, the narrative follows events involving all three sons and then gives a genealogy of nations descended from them.

The order of the names is usually Shem, Ham, and Japheth, although the text’s later family details have generated debate about chronology and precedence. The story does not name their wives, even though it says they entered the Ark.

These names are also connected with the terms “Semitic,” “Hamite,” and “Japhethite” in older traditions and historical writing. Some of those later classifications have been used in ways that do not match modern scholarship. The biblical names themselves are unambiguous in the Genesis account.