Genesis 10:21

Shem, the older brother of Japheth, became the father of Eber, and the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

In Context

20Those are the descendants of Ham. They became groups that had their own clans, their own languages, and their own land.

22The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:10◄This is a bigger list/I will now tell you more► of the descendants of Shem: Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpachshad.

1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. Aram’s sons were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 10:16-21

15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their… Read the whole commentary →

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