The Semites
Genesis 10:21
In 11 translations
- BSB
- And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.Or Shem, whose older brother was Japheth
- KJV
- ¶ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
- WEB
- Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.
- ASV
- And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
- LSV
- As for Shem, father of all sons of Eber, the older brother of Japheth, he has also begotten.
- YLT
- As to Shem, father of all sons of Eber, brother of Japheth the elder, he hath also begotten:
- DBY
- And to Shem — to him also were [sons] born; he is the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
- DRC
- Of Sem also, the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.
- GNV
- Vnto Shem also the father of all the sonnes of Eber, and elder brother of Iapheth were children borne.
- JPS
- And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
- LXXE
- And to Sem himself also were children born, the father of all the sons of Heber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וּלְשֵׁ֥ם יֻלַּ֖ד גַּם־ה֑וּא אֲבִי֙ כָּל־בְּנֵי־עֵ֔בֶר אֲחִ֖י יֶ֥פֶת הַגָּדֽוֹל׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ τῷ Σὴμ ἐγεννήθη καὶ αὐτῷ πατρὶ πάντων τῶν υἱῶν Ἕβερ, ἀδελφῷ Ἰάφεθ τοῦ μείζονος.
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- Numbers 24:24Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”
- Genesis 11:10–26This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and…
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