Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundreth yere old, and begat Arphaxad two yeres after the flood.

Bible (Bishops')

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 therfore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord dyd there confounde the language of all the earth: and from thence dyd the Lorde scatter them abrode vpon the face of all the earth.

11And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad fiue hundreth yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21Unto Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, and elder brother of Iapheth, there were chyldren borne.

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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