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The Line of Descent from Shem to Abram

10 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[a] Arphaxad. 11 After the birth of[b] Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

12 When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:10 Or the ancestor of; also in 11:12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24.
  2. 11:11 Or the birth of this ancestor of; also in 11:13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25.

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