Genesis 11:10

These are the descendants of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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

In Context

9That is why they named it Babel, for there the Lord confused the language of all the inhabitants of earth and scattered them over the whole world.

11Shem lived for five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

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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