OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 11

Genesis 11:11

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Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

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Genesis 11:11 in context

Genesis 11:8–14

8

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

9

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

10

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.

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Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

12

Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

13

Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

14

Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.

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