Genesis 11:10

And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.

Brenton Septuagint

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

9On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

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

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Cross References

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

1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Sem, Ælam, and Assur,

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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