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Genesis 11:10 records that Shem was 100 years old at the birth of Arphaxad, two years after the flood; and that he lived for another 500 years after this, making his age at death 600 years. Excerpts from Genesis 11:10–27—( Jewish Publication Society translation of 1917):
Genesis 5:32 indicates that Noah became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth at the age of 500 years old, but does not list in detail their specific years. (Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood in Genesis 7.) An incident involving Ham is related in Genesis 9:20–27:
Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years; and he died. 5:21–27 [5] According to the Hebrew Bible, Methuselah begets Lamech and then lives 782 more years. When Lamech is 182, he begets Noah, and the Genesis Flood comes when Noah is 600 years old. [6] This would imply that Methuselah dies the year of the Flood.
Eber (Hebrew: Ever) was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg, born when Eber was 34 years old, [1] and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah, a distant ancestor of Abraham. According to the Hebrew Bible, Eber died at the age of 464. [1] [2]
Assuming the premise that Melchizedek was Shem, he would have been 465 years old at the time and Abram was 75 years of age. [65] Chazalic literature unanimously identify Melchizedek as Shem son of Noah (Targum Yonathan to Genesis chapter 14, Genesis Rabbah 46:7, Babylonian Talmud to Tractate Nedarim 32b).
The year Shem died. He was 600 years old (2687–2087). Esau and Jacob were 50, Isaac 110, Ishmael 124, Eber 435 years old. Genesis 11:10–11: 2074 The year Ishmael died. He was 137 years old (2211–2074). Esau and Jacob were 63, Isaac 123, Eber 448 years old. Genesis 25:17: 2060 Ante C. 1759
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Elam (/ ˈ iː l ə m /; [1] עֵילָם ‘Elam) in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10:22, Ezra 4:9) is said to be one of the sons of Shem, the son of Noah.The name is also used (as in Akkadian) for the ancient country of Elam in what is now southern Iran, whose people the Hebrews believed to be the offspring of Elam, [2] son of Shem (Genesis 10:22).