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SHEM. (Shem-S8) (Sem-S?)(Sceaf-S6). [CHART A1].
Born (in 2442 B.C.-S?)(2425 B.C.-S8) in Shulon, East of Eden; son of NOAH. (S1, S4).

From the Bible we read:

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen. 5: 32
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen. 6:10

The Book of Moses clarifies this further:

And Noah was four hundred and fifty years old, and begat Japheth; and forty-two years afterward he begat Shem of her who was the mother of Japheth, and when he was five hundred years old he begat Ham. Moses 8:12

Noah and his sons were righteous, and faithful to the Lord.

And thus Noah found agrace in the eyes of the Lord; for Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generation; and he walked with God, as did also his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Moses 8:27 <

Before the flood, there was a land named Shem. It may have been named after Shem, or Shem was named after it:

And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: Look; and I looked, and I beheld the land of Sharon, and the land of Enoch, and the land of Omner, and the land of Heni, and the land of Shem, and the land of Haner, and the land of Hanannihah, and all the inhabitants thereof; Moses 7:9

Shem is said to have married Salib, daughter of Batawil, son of Mehujael, son of Enoch, son of Cain, son of Adam. [Prophets and patriarchs By Tabari, William M. Brinner].

Shem married Sedeqetelebab. (S8).

THE FLOOD

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; Genesis 7:13

And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. Genesis 9:18

SHEM AND JAPHETH CARE FOR NOAH

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.Gen. 9: 23
Noah foretold his preeminence over Canaan (9:23-27).
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Gen. 9: 26
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Gen. 9: 27

DESCENDANTS

NOW these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. Gen. 10: 1

Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. Genesis 10:21

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. Gen. 10: 31

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: Gen. 11: 10

The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.Gen. 10: 22

2342 B.C. Son Arphaxad born. (S4).

Shem was 110 when Arphaxad was born.

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. Gen. 11: 11

Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.1 Chr. 1:4

The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. 1 Chr. 1: 17

Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, 1 Chr. 1: 24

DIVISION OF THE EARTH

After the flood Noah gave to Shem Asia, with in the Euphrates, to the Indian Ocean.

His name was the beginning of the word "Semite." He is the ancestor of the Semites.
In the Old Testament, a righteous son of Noah and, according to tradition, the forefather of the Shemite, or Semite, peoples, including the Arabs, Hebrews, Babylonians, Syrians, Phoenicians, and Assyrians (Gen. 5: 29-32; 6: 10; 7: 13; 9: 26; 10: 21-32; Moses 8: 12).

Noah, who gave warning of the flood; Shem, the great high priest; Abraham, the father of the faithful; Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, the great glaw-giver of Israel; D&C 138: 41

He died in 1842 B.C. (S4,S8) in Salem (Jerusalem), Canaan. (S8).

WIFE:
Sedeqetelebab. (S8).
Salib, daughter of Batawil, son of Mehujael, son of Enoch, son of Cain, son of Adam. (Brinner).



CHILDREN of SHEM
  1. ARPHAXAD.
  2. Elam.
  3. Asshur.
  4. Lud.
  5. Aram.


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