After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; That our daughters may be as pillars, Sculptured in palace style;
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah.