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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.

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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.

From Shem to Abram(A)

10 This is the account(B) of Shem’s family line.

Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father[a] of Arphaxad.(C) 11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:10 Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 11-25.