Genesis 11:11
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years,.... So that his whole age was six hundred years, and therefore must live to the times of Abraham, and even throughout the life of that…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
five hundred years According to this chronology Shem would have outlived Abram.
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