Genesis 10:21-22

21 Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

22 ¹The sons of Shem were ²Elam and Asshur and ³Arpachshad and ⁴Lud and Aram.

Genesis 10:21-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 10

This chapter gives an account of the posterity of the three sons of Noah, by whom the world was peopled after the flood, Ge 10:1 of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5 of the posterity of Ham, Ge 10:6-20 and of the posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Chronicles 1:17
• 2. Genesis 14:1, 9
• 3. Genesis 11:10
• 4. Isaiah 66:19

Footnotes

• [a] Or "the brother of Japheth the elder"