Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundreth yeere olde, and begate Arpachshad two yeere after the flood.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 was called Babel, because the Lord did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.

11And Shem liued, after he begate Arpachshad, fiue hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21Vnto Shem also the father of all the sonnes of Eber, and elder brother of Iapheth were children borne.

1 Chronicles 1:17The sonnes of Shem were Elam and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Vz, and Hul, and Gether, 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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