and Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arpachshad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood;
Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and fathered Shelah;
“As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
¶When our sons in their youth are like growing plants, And our daughters like corner pillars fashioned for a palace,