Genesis 11:10

These, are the genealogies of Shem, Shem was a hundred years old when he begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

9For this cause, was the name thereof called Babel [="Confusion"]; because there, did Yahweh confuse the speech of all the earth,—and, from thence, did Yahweh scatter them abroad, over the face of all the earth.

11and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad, five hundred years,—and begat sons and daughters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:21Now, to Shem, father of all the sons of Eber, elder brother of Japheth, to him also, were children born.

1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Shem, Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram,—and Uz, and Hul, and Gethur, 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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