And Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill 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 moves upon the earth.
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:
And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah:
And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner pillars, polished after the similitude of a palace: