Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem: Shem, when a hundred years old, begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

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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

9Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all the earth.

11And Shem lived after he had begotten Arpachshad five hundred years; and begat sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21But unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, were children born.

1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Shem: 'Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and 'Uz, and Chul, 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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