Genesis 10:21

Also of Shem were born the fathers of all the sons of Eber, and Japheth was the more, or elder, brother (of Shem), [or and Shem was the elder brother of Japheth]. (And of Shem were born the fathers of all the sons of Eber, and Shem was the elder brother of Japheth.)

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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

20These were the sons of Ham, in their kindreds, and languages, and generations, and lands, and folks (or and nations).

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

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Cross References

Genesis 11:10These be the generations of Shem (or These be the descendants of Shem). Shem was an hundred years (old) when he begat Arphaxad, two years after the great flood.

1 Chronicles 1:17The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram were Uz, and Hul, and 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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