³² After Noah was 500 years old,^(A) he became the father of Shem,^(B) Ham and Japheth.^(C)

The Semites^(A)

²¹ Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was^[a] Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.^(B)

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)

²² Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked^(A) and told his two brothers outside. ²³ But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old^(A) when the floodwaters came on the earth.