Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a son of a hundred years, and he begat Arphaxad, two years after the deluge.

Targum Onkelos

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 the name of it is called Confusion, because the Lord there confused the tongue of all the earth, and from thence the Lord dispersed them upon the face of all the earth.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21And of Shem was born: (also he is the father of all the sons of Eber, and the brother of Yapheth the Great:)

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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