A moment in scripture
Genesis 11:10
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These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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The surrounding passage
- Genesis 11:8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Genesis 11:9
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
- Genesis 11:11
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:12
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.