These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThese are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
These are births of Shem: Shem is a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)