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

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Arphaxad Person

Son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the age of 438 years ( Gen. 11:10-13 ; 1 Chr. 1:17 , 18; Luke 3:36 ).

Shem Person

A name; renown, the first mentioned of the sons of Noah ( Gen. 5:32 ; 6:10 ). He was probably the eldest of Noah’s sons. The words “brother of Japheth the elder” in Gen.