Genesis 10:21
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Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

Shem.

Genesis 9:26 And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

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the father.

Genesis 11:10-26 These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood. . . .

Eber.

Numbers 24:24 They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

the brother.

Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch, and Thiras.

Context
The Semites
21Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.22The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.…
Cross References
Genesis 10:20
These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

Numbers 24:22
And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.

Numbers 24:24
They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

Lexicon
And sons were also born
יֻלַּ֖ד (yul·laḏ)
Verb - QalPass - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

to Shem,
וּלְשֵׁ֥ם (ū·lə·šêm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8035: Shem -- 'name', oldest son of Noah

the older
הַגָּדֽוֹל׃ (hag·gā·ḏō·wl)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1419: Great, older, insolent

brother
אֲחִ֖י (’ă·ḥî)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )

[of] Japheth;
יֶ֥פֶת (ye·p̄eṯ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3315: Japheth -- a son of Noah

[Shem]
ה֑וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

was the forefather
אֲבִי֙ (’ă·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

of all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the sons
בְּנֵי־ (bə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

of Eber.
עֵ֔בֶר (‘ê·ḇer)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5677: Eber -- 'region beyond', a descendant of Shem, also the name of several Israelites


Additional Translations
And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

And to Sem himself also were children born, the father of all the sons of Heber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

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.

And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

As to Shem, father of all sons of Eber, brother of Japheth the elder, he hath also begotten:
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