Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

11And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21Of Sem also, the father of all children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Sem: Elam and Asur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Hus, and Hul, and Gether, and Mosoch.

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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