KJV King James Version
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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Genesis 11:10
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
WEB World English Bible
This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
ASV American Standard Version
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
These are births of Shem: Shem is a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.
Surrounding context — Genesis 11
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 the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֵ֚לֶּהH428 · el.lehtheseתּוֹלְדֹ֣תH8435 · to.le.dahgenerationשֵׁ֔םH8035 · shemShemשֵׁ֚םH8035 · shemShemבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childמְאַ֣תH3967 · me.ahhundredשָׁנָ֔הH8141 · sha.nehyearוַיּ֖וֹלֶדH3205 · ya.ladto begetאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אַרְפַּכְשָׁ֑דH775 · ar.pakh.shadArpachshadשְׁנָתַ֖יִםH8141 · sha.nehyearאַחַ֥רH310 · a.charafterהַמַּבּֽוּל׃H3999 · mab.bulflood
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 1:17-27The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.Genesis 10:21-22Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.Genesis 11:27Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.Luke 3:34-36Which was [the son] of Jacob, which was [the son] of Isaac, which was [the son] of Abraham, which was [the son] of Thara, which was [the son] of Nachor,
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