Genesis 11:10

These are the toldot of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and fathered Arpachshad two years after the mabbul;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 shem of it called Bavel; because Hashem did there confuse the language of kol Ha'Aretz; and from there did Hashem scatter them abroad upon the face of kol Ha'Aretz.

11And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad five hundred shanah, and fathered banim and banot.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21Also unto Shem avi kol Bnei Ever, and the older brother of Yephet, even to him were offspring born.

1 Chronicles 1:17The Bnei Shem: Eilam, and Ashur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Utz, and Chul, and Geter, 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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