These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the Flood. The genealogical table of Shem is now repeated in detail, because the narrative gradually tends toward the story of the people of God, whose progenitor was Abraham, a descendant of Shem through Eber.
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Genesis 11:10
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: