Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.