"And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters." — Genesis 11:11

Genesis 11:11 · KJV

“And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.”

— Genesis 11:11

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

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

Genesis 11 — Context

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. {Babel: that is, Confusion}

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

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

Cross References

Genesis 9:7

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Psalms 128:3-4

Thy wife {shall be} as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Genesis 5:4-32

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

Psalms 127:3-4

Lo, children {are} an heritage of the LORD: {and} the fruit of the womb {is his} reward.

Psalms 144:12

That our sons {may be} as plants grown up in their youth; {that} our daughters {may be} as corner stones, polished {after} the similitude of a palace: {polished: Heb. cut}

Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. {moveth: Heb. creepeth}