Genesis 11:10

These were the descendants of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and he became the father of Arphaxad 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

9Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth and from there Yahweh scattered them abroad over the surface of all the earth.

11Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arphaxad. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21Sons also were born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth. Shem was also the ancestor of all the people of Eber.

1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek.

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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