Genesis 11:10-32
Shem’s Descendants (1 Chr. 1:17–27; Luke 3:34–36)
10 This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. 11 After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12 Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah. 13 After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14 Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber. 15 After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg. 17 After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
18 Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu. 19 After he begot Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug. 21 After he begot Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
22 Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor. 23 After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah. 25 After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
26 Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Terah’s Descendants
27 This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
The genealogy of Shem from Noah out of the Ark is listed here with a specific focus on Terah. This was because it demonstrated the lineage of Terah’s son Abraham of whom we have much to talk about in the promise of faith in the work of God through the Seed (Galatians 3:16, 18) who is the Messiah-Christ we know and trust just as Abraham trusted the LORD by accepting and receiving His word of promise to all nations through him. There were seven generations from Arphaxad to Nahor whose son was Terah, father of Abraham. It also shows Abraham’s brother having Lot as a son and how Lot’s father died in the land Ur of the Chaldeans. These descendants of Terah got married and ended up leaving Ur to travel the long journey to Canaan where the promise for the channel of salvation would eventually be born out of in that promised land. They ended up in Haran for a while on the way before moving on to the promised land. This place was located in Mesopotamia in Padan-aram at the foot of Mount Masius between the Khabour and the Euphrates according to Strong’s. The journey of faith had begun for Abraham and for us all who trust God and follow where He leads us to deliverance (Genesis 12:3, Galatians 3:6-7, 8-9) from sin’s penalty on the path of grace. It is therefore worthwhile to understand God’s plan to bring us back to the uncorrupted image man had in Eden’s Garden when first created to step back and see the sovereign predetermined plan of the LORD to redeem His people (Titus 2:14) for Himself in eternity. The look at Shem’s and Terah’s descendants helps us grasp the enormity of the long range plan of God come to fruition at the proper time (Galatians 4:4-5) of His visitation. This gospel of grace unfolds over time from the fall at creation until the redemption of the purchased possession (Ephesians 1:13, 14) who is the church in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
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