An excerpt from a comment on a different blog of mine :
Let me give you and exsample of scripture.In Genesis chapter 5 verse 32 in the Genealogy on Noah it states Noah was 500 years old and Shen, Ham and Japheth. Now in genealogy the first name mention is the first born which is Shem. Now lets look at Genesis Chapter 10 verse 21 And the children were born to Shem the father of all the children of Eder the brother of Japheth the elder. ok with the 2 verses i showed you it say Japheth was the oldest when in fact Shem was born first and he was the oldest. It should have read Japheth the younger.
Found this interesting so I did a little research just now and here is what I found just by examing the scriptures mentioned by the poster of the comment and also some of the scriptures around them:
(Genesis 5:32) 32 And Noah got to be five hundred years old. After that Noah became father to Shem, Ham and Ja´pheth.
(Genesis 10:1) 10 And this is the history of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham and Ja´pheth.. . .
(Genesis 10:6) 6 And the sons of Ham were Cush and Miz´ra·im and Put and Ca´naan.
(Genesis 10:21) 21 And to Shem, the forefather of all the sons of E´ber, the brother of Ja´pheth the oldest, there was also progeny born. . .
(Genesis 11:10) 10 This is the history of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became father to Ar·pach´shad . . .
(Genesis 11:12) 12 And Ar·pach´shad lived thirty-five years. Then he became father to She´lah.
(Genesis 11:14) 14 And She´lah lived thirty years. Then he became father to E´ber. . .
(Genesis 11:16) 16 And E´ber lived on for thirty-four years. Then he became father to Pe´leg.
(Genesis 11:18) 18 And Pe´leg lived on for thirty years. Then he became father to Re´u.
(Genesis 11:20) 20 And Re´u lived on for thirty-two years. Then he became father to Se´rug. . .
(Genesis 11:22) 22 And Se´rug lived on for thirty years. Then he became father to Na´hor.
(Genesis 11:24) . . .And Na´hor lived on for twenty-nine years. Then he became father to Te´rah. . .
(Genesis 11:26) 26 And Te´rah lived on for seventy years, after which he became father to A´bram. . .
(Genesis 12:1-3) 12 And Jehovah proceeded to say to A´bram: “Go your way out of your country and from your relatives and from the house of your father to the country that I shall show you; 2 and I shall make a great nation out of you and I shall bless you and I will make your name great; and prove yourself a blessing. 3 And I will bless those who bless you, and him that calls down evil upon you I shall curse, and all the families of the ground will certainly bless themselves by means of you.”
Shem, Ham, and Japeth are spoken of, in all cases, in chronological order but in the case of the geneology, it goes from youngest to oldest which is not the usual way.
This is so because Shem is the one whom the line of descent that leads to the birth of Jesus flows through. Since God chose his line, rather than that of Japeth he is, in that way, put ahead of his eldest brother.
Whether he was put ahead of him in other ways, I could not say.
NOTE: I was wrong on at least one thing I said here and now I know that there were also some things I was provably right about and some things Spare Change was provably right about, so: ... to be continued. ...
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