Genesis 10:21
Good News Translation
Shem, the older brother of Japheth, was the ancestor of all the Hebrews.

New Revised Standard Version
To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.

New American Bible
To Shem also, Japheth’s oldest brother and the ancestor of all the children of Eber, children were born.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

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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.

Genesis 10:20
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