Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Then after he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
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Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Arpachshad liued, after he begate Shelah, foure hundreth and three yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Arphaxad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
Then after he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Arphaxad lived another 403 years after Shelah was born and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֗ד Arphaxad H775 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֗ד Arphaxad H775 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 49 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 49 words vs World English Bible 21. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַֽיְחִ֣י אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֗ד אַֽחֲרֵי֙ הוֹלִיד֣וֹ אֶת שֶׁ֔לַח שָׁלֹ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֔ים וְאַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בָּנִ֖ים וּבָנֽוֹת
Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ζάω αρφαξαδ μετά ὁ γεννάω αὐτός ὁ καιναν ἔτος τετρακόσιοι τριάκοντα καί γεννάω υἱός καί θυγάτηρ καί ἀποθνήσκω καί ζάω καιναν ἑκατόν τριάκοντα ἔτος καί γεννάω ὁ σαλα καί ζάω καιναν μετά ὁ γεννάω αὐτός ὁ σαλα ἔτος τριακόσιοι τριάκοντα καί γεννάω υἱός καί θυγάτηρ καί ἀποθνήσκω
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived one hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַחֲיָא אַרְפַּכְשַׁד בָּתַר דְּאוֹלִיד יָת שֶׁלַח אַרְבַּע מְאָה וּתְלָת שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וַחֲיָא אַרְפַּכְשַׁד בָּתַר דְאוֹלִיד יַת שֶׁלַח אַרְבַּע מְאָה וּתְלַת שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן
And Arphakshad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼArpakshad (“Arphaxad”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 11:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.