Genesis 11:10
New International Version
This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

New Living Translation
This is the account of Shem’s family. Two years after the great flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

English Standard Version
These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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.

King James Bible
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

New King James Version
This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.

New American Standard Bible
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood;

NASB 1995
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

NASB 1977
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

Legacy Standard Bible
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

Amplified Bible
These are the records of the generations of Shem [from whom Abraham descended]. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

Christian Standard Bible
These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

American Standard Version
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And these are the generations of Sheem: Sheem, son of a hundred years, begot Arphakshar two years after the flood:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

English Revised Version
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is the account of Shem and his descendants. Two years after the flood when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpachshad.

Good News Translation
These are the descendants of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he had a son, Arpachshad.

International Standard Version
These are the family records of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

JPS Tanakh 1917
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Literal Standard Version
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.

Majority 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.

New American Bible
These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he begot Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

NET Bible
This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

New Revised Standard Version
These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

New Heart English Bible
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Webster's Bible Translation
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

World English Bible
This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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.

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Context
Genealogy from Shem to Abram
10This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. 11And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.…

Cross References
Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 11:11
And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

1 Chronicles 1:24
So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah,


Treasury of Scripture

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 11:27
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

Genesis 10:21,22
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born…

1 Chronicles 1:17-27
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech…

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Genesis 11
1. One language in the world.
2. The building of Babel.
5. It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed.
10. The generations of Shem.
27. The generations of Terah, the father of Abram.
31. Terah, with Abram and Lot, move from Ur to Haran.














THE T?LD?TH SHEM.

(10-26) These are the generations of Shem.--Here also, as in Genesis 5, there is a very considerable divergence between the statements of the Hebrew, the Samaritan, and the Septuagint texts. According to the Hebrew, the total number of years from Shem to the birth of Abram was 390, according to the Samaritan, 1,040, and according to the LXX., 1,270. These larger totals are obtained by adding, as a rule, one hundred years to the age of each patriarch before the birth of his eldest son, and the LXX. also insert Cainan between Arphaxad and Salah. The virtual agreement of two authorities, coming from such different quarters as the Samaritan transcript and the LXX. version is remarkable, but scholars have long acknowledged that these genealogies were never intended for chronological purposes, and that so to employ them leads only to error.

Like the genealogy of Seth, in Genesis 5, the Toldoth Shem also consists of ten generations, and thus forms, according to Hebrew ideas respecting the number ten, a perfect representation of the race. With the exception of Arphaxad (for whom see Genesis 10:22), the names in this genealogy are all Hebrew words, and are full of meaning. Thus--

Salah means mission, the sending out of men in colonies to occupy new lands.

Eber is the passage, marking the migration of the head-quarters of the race, and the crossing of some great obstacle in its way, most probably the river Tigris. With this would begin the long struggle between the Semitic and Hamitic races in Mesopotamia.

Peleg, division, may be a memorial of the separation of the Joktanite Arabs from the main stem, but see Note on Genesis 10:25. Through him the rights of primogeniture passed to the Hebrews.

Reu, friendship, seems to indicate a closer drawing together of the rest after the departure of Joktan and his clan, which probably had been preceded by dissensions.

Serug, intertwining, may denote that this friendship between the various races into which the family of Shem was by this time divided was cemented by intermarriage. . . .

Verse 10. - These are the generations of Shem. The new section, opening with the usual formula (cf. Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:9; Genesis 10:1), reverts to the main purpose of the inspired narrative, which is to trace the onward development of the line of promise; and this it does by carrying forward the genealogical history of the holy seed through ten generations till it reaches Abram. Taken along with Genesis 5, with which it corresponds, the present table completes the chronological outline from Adam to the Hebrew patriarch. Shem was an hundred years old (literally, the son of an hundred years, i.e. in his hundredth year), and begat Arphaxad. The English term is borrowed from the LXX., the Hebrew being Arpaehshadh, a compound of which the principal part is כשד, giving rise to the Chashdim or Chaldeans; whence Professor Lewis regards it as originally the name of a people transferred to their ancestor (cf. Genesis 10:22). Two years after the flood. So that in Noah's 603rd year Shem was 100, and must accordingly have been born in Noah's 503rd year, i.e. two years after Japheth (cf. Genesis 5:32; Genesis 10:21). The mention of the Flood indicates the point of time from which the present section is designed to be reckoned.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This
אֵ֚לֶּה (’êl·leh)
Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

is the account
תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת (tō·wl·ḏōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 8435: Descent, family, history

of Shem.
שֵׁ֔ם (šêm)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8035: Shem -- 'name', oldest son of Noah

Two years
שְׁנָתַ֖יִם (šə·nā·ṯa·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's 8141: A year

after
אַחַ֥ר (’a·ḥar)
Adverb
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

the flood,
הַמַּבּֽוּל׃ (ham·mab·būl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3999: Flood -- a deluge

when Shem
שֵׁ֚ם (m)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8035: Shem -- 'name', oldest son of Noah

was 100
מְאַ֣ת (mə·’aṯ)
Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3967: A hundred

years
שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

old,
בֶּן־ (ben-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

he became the father of
וַיּ֖וֹלֶד (way·yō·w·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

Arphaxad.
אַרְפַּכְשָׁ֑ד (’ar·paḵ·šāḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 775: Arpachshad -- third son of Shem, also the region settled by him


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