Genesis 11:10

10 These are the generations of Sem: Se was an hundred yere olde and begat Arcphachsad ij. yere after the floude.

Genesis 11:10 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem
Or a genealogy of the posterity of Shem; not of all of them, only of those of the line which led to Abraham, by which might appear the true line in which the Messiah from Adam through Abraham sprung:

Shem was one hundred years old, and begat Arphexad two years after
the flood;
by which it is pretty plain that he was younger than Japheth; (See Gill on Genesis 10:21) of Arphaxad his son, (See Gill on Genesis 10:22).

Genesis 11:10 In-Context

8 Thus ye LORde skatered them from thence vppon all the erth. And they left of to buylde the cyte.

9 Wherfore the name of it is called Babell because that the LORDE there confounded the tonge of all the world. And because that the LORde from thence skatered them abrode vppon all the erth.

10 These are the generations of Sem: Se was an hundred yere olde and begat Arcphachsad ij. yere after the floude.

11 And Se lyved after he had begot Arphachsad .v. hundred yere an begat sonnes and doughters.

12 And Arphacsad lyued .xxxv. yere and begat Sala