John Gill Commentary Genesis 7:13

"In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah`s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;" — Genesis 7:13 (ASV)

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah
That is, on the seventeenth day of the second month; (See Gill on Genesis 7:11) the names of Noah and his three sons are expressed, but not the names of his wife, and of the wives of his sons; they are only described by their relation as follows: and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons, into the ark :

but other writers pretend to give us their names; Berosus ^F3 calls the wife of Noah "Tytea", the great, and Aretia, plainly from "Tit", clay, and "Aerets", the earth; and his sons' wives Pandora, Noela, and Noegla: according to Sanchoniatho ^F4 , the name of Noah was "Epigeus", a man of the earth, see (Genesis 9:20) and afterwards "Ouranus", heaven; and he had a sister whom he married, called "Ge", earth; and with this agrees the account that the Allantes give of their deities; the first of which was Uranus, and his wife's name was Titaea; who, after her death, was deified, and called "Ge" ^F5 :

so the Jewish writers say ^F6 , the wife of Noah was called Titzia, and others say Aritzia, from the word "Eretz", earth ^F7 ; though others will have it, that she was Naamah, the daughter of Lamech: the Arabic writers ^F8 tell us, that the name of Noah's wife was Hancel, the daughter of Namusa, the son of Enoch; that the name of Shem's wife was Zalbeth, or, as other copies, Zalith or Salit; that the name of Ham's Nahalath; and of Japheth's Aresisia; who were all three the daughters of Methuselah; and they also relate ^F9 , that when Noah entered the ark, he took the body of Adam with him, and placed it in the middle of the ark.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F3: De temporibus ante diluvium, l. 1. fol. 8. 20. l. 2. fol. 11. 1. l. 3. fol. 24. 2.
• F4: Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evang. l. 1. p. 36.
• F5: Diodor. Sicul. Bibliothec. l. 3. p. 190.
• F6: Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 75. 1.
• F7: Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 23. fol. 20. 3. Jarchi in Gen. 4. 22.
• F8: Eutych. Annal. p. 34. Patricides, p. 8. apud Hottinger. p. 245.
• F9: Ibid. p. 250.