Genesis 11:11
Shem lived for five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
In Context
12Arpachshad lived for five and thirty years, and fathered Shelah.
Cross References
Genesis 1:28Then God blessed them, and said to them: “Be fruitful, grow in number, fill the earth and govern it; rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that crawls on the ground,”
Genesis 9:7But you are to bear children and repopulate the whole earth and subdue it.”
Psalms 128:3Like a fruitful vine shall your wife be in the innermost room of your house: your children, like olive shoots, round about your table.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:11-27
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: 13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: 15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.… Read the whole commentary →