Genesis 11:11
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New International Version (©2011)
And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

New Living Translation (©2007)
After the birth of Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Shem lived 500 years after he fathered Arpachshad and had other sons and daughters.

NET Bible (©2006)
And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
After he became the father of Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

American King James Version
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

American Standard Version
and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Darby Bible Translation
And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

English Revised Version
and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

World English Bible
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Young's Literal Translation
And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:10-26 Here is a genealogy, or list of names, ending in Abram, the friend of God, and thus leading towards Christ, the promised Seed, who was the son of Abram. Nothing is left upon record but their names and ages; the Holy Ghost seeming to hasten through them to the history of Abram. How little do we know of those that are gone before us in this world, even of those that lived in the same places where we live, as we likewise know little of those who now live in distant places! We have enough to do to mind our own work. When the earth began to be peopled, men's lives began to shorten; this was the wise disposal of Providence.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 11. - And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years (making his life in all 600 years), and begat sons and daughters (concerning whom Scripture is silent, as not being included in the holy line).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years,.... So that his whole age was six hundred years, and therefore must live to the times of Abraham, and even throughout the life of that patriarch, or near the end of it; and if he was the same with Melchizedek, as is the general opinion of the Jews, and is embraced by many Christians, they had an interview with each other:

and begat sons and daughters; of whom we have no account, because the Messiah did not spring from them; the design of this genealogy being to carry down his direct line from Shem to Abraham: it is to be observed, that in the account of the patriarchs, and their children after the flood, it is not added as before the flood, "and he died", their lives being long, that remark is made; but the lives of these being shorter, and gradually decreasing, it is omitted. An Arabic writer (x) says, that Shem died in the month Elul, on a Friday, at the close of the year of the world 2758. A Jewish writer (y) says, he died in the fifteenth year of Jacob, and that he saw twelve generations; according to Bishop Usher, he died A. M. 2158.

(x) Elmacinus, p. 13. apud Hottinger. Smegma, p. 258. (y) R. Gedaliah, Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.

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Genealogy from Shem to Abram
10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: …

Genesis 11:10 This is the account of Shem's family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
Genesis 11:12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.