Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he conceived Arphaxad, two years after the great flood.

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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

9And for this reason, its name was called ‘Babel,’ because in that place the language of the whole earth became confused. And from then on, the Lord scattered them across the face of every region.

11And after he conceived Arphaxad, Shem lived for five hundred years, and he conceived sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21Likewise, from Shem, the father of all the sons of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

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 →

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