Discovery BoxGenesis 6:10 
Context6:10 Noah had 1 three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 9:26
Context9:26 He also said,
“Worthy of praise is 2 the Lord, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem! 3
Genesis 11:10
Context11:10 This is the account of Shem.
Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
Genesis 5:32
Context5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he 4 became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 10:22
Context10:22 The sons of Shem were Elam, 5 Asshur, 6 Arphaxad, 7 Lud, 8 and Aram. 9
Genesis 10:21
Context10:21 And sons were also born 10 to Shem (the older brother of Japheth), 11 the father of all the sons of Eber.
Genesis 11:11
Context11:11 And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other 12 sons and daughters.
1 tn Heb “fathered.”
2 tn Heb “blessed be.”
3 tn Heb “a slave to him”; the referent (Shem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “Noah.” The pronoun (“he”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 sn The Hebrew name Elam (עֵילָם, ’elam) means “highland.” The Elamites were a non-Semitic people who lived east of Babylon.
6 sn Asshur is the name for the Assyrians. Asshur was the region in which Nimrod expanded his power (see v. 11, where the name is also mentioned). When names appear in both sections of a genealogical list, it probably means that there were both Hamites and Shemites living in that region in antiquity, especially if the name is a place name.
7 sn The descendants of Arphaxad may have lived northeast of Nineveh.
8 sn Lud may have been the ancestor of the Ludbu, who lived near the Tigris River.
9 sn Aram became the collective name of the northern tribes living in the steppes of Mesopotamia and speaking Aramaic dialects.
10 tn Heb “And to Shem was born.”
11 tn Or “whose older brother was Japheth.” Some translations render Japheth as the older brother, understanding the adjective הַגָּדוֹל (haggadol, “older”) as modifying Japheth. However, in Hebrew when a masculine singular definite attributive adjective follows the sequence masculine singular construct noun + proper name, the adjective invariably modifies the noun in construct, not the proper name. Such is the case here. See Deut 11:7; Judg 1:13; 2:7; 3:9; 9:5; 2 Kgs 15:35; 2 Chr 27:3; Neh 3:30; Jer 13:9; 36:10; Ezek 10:19; 11:1.
12 tn The word “other” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for stylistic reasons.
