Genesis 11:10 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 11:10

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:

KJV

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

These are the generations of Shem,.... Or a genealogy of the posterity of Shem; not of all of them, only of those of the line which led to Abraham, by which might appear the true line in which the Messiah from Adam through Abraham sprung: Shem was one hundred years old, and begat Arphexad two years after the flood; by which it is pretty plain that he was younger than Japheth; See Gill on Gen 10:21 of Arphaxad his son; see Gill on Gen 10:22.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

That nothing is left upon record concerning those of this line, but their names and ages; the Holy Ghost seeming to hasten thro' them to the story of Abraham. How little do we know of those that are gone before us in this world, even those that lived in the same places where we live! Or indeed of those who are our contemporaries, but in distant places.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

These are the generations of Shem - This may he called the holy family, as from it sprang Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the twelve patriarchs, David, Solomon, and all the great progenitors of the Messiah. We have already seen that the Scripture chronology, as it exists in the Hebrew text, the Samaritan, the Septuagint, Josephus, and some of the fathers, is greatly embarrassed; and it is yet much more so in the various systems of learned and unlearned chronologists.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֵ֚לֶּה	'E.leh	these	H428 →
תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת	tol.Dot	[are] [the] accounts of	H8435 →
שֵׁ֔ם	Shem	Shem	H8035 →
שֵׁ֚ם	Shem	Shem	H8035 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[was] a son of	H1121 →
מְאַ֣ת	me.'At	one hundred	H3967 →
שָׁנָ֔ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
וַיּ֖וֹלֶד	vai.Yo.led	and he fathered	H3205 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אַרְפַּכְשָׁ֑ד	'ar.pakh.Shad	Arphaxad	H775 →
שְׁנָתַ֖יִם	she.na.Ta.yim	two years	H8141 →
אַחַ֥ר	'a.Char	after	H310 →
הַמַּבּֽוּל׃	ha.ma.Bul	the flood	H3999 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 11:27
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
leads to
- Genesis 14:12
  They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.
- Genesis 11:31
  And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan.…
- Genesis 12:4
  So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- 2 Peter 2:7
  and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
- Genesis 13:1–11
  So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.

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