Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

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These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

In Context

9So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

11And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.

1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad 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 →

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