and Shem lived after the birth of Arpachshad five hundred years and had other sons and daughters.
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood,
When Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah,
“And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and have dominion over it.”
May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars, cut for the building of a palace.