10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. …
Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor, …
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. …
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-26)We have here a genealogy, not an endless genealogy, for here it ends in Abram, the friend of God, and leads further to Christ, the promised seed, who was the son of Abram, and from Abram the genealogy of Christ is reckoned (Matt. 1:1-17); so that put Gen. 5:1-32 ; 11:10-26 ; Matt. 1:1-17 , together, and you have such an entire genealogy of Jesus Christ as cannot be produced, for aught I know, conc…
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