Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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- KJV And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- BSB After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- NKJV And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- NASB Now after Noah was five hundred years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- NLT After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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- Gen 6:10Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Gen 10:21Children were also born to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth.
- Gen 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.
- Gen 7:13In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth — the sons of Noah — and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship —
- Luke 3:36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
- Gen 10:1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
- 1 Chr 1:4–28Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Gen 9:22–27Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- Gen 9:18–19The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
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