Genesis 11:10
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11And Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arphaxad, and begot sons and daughters.
Cross References
Genesis 10:21And to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were also born to him.
1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:6-10
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is… Read the whole commentary →