Genesis 11:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that crawl on the earth.

Genesis 11:10

These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he begot Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

Genesis 11:12

When Arpachshad was thirty-five years old, he begot Shelah.

Genesis 9:7

Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it.

Psalm 144:12

May our sons be like plants well nurtured from their youth, Our daughters, like carved columns, shapely as those of the temple.