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Genesis lists Shem fathering Arphaxad and living 500 more years, with no total given. The Samaritan version of Genesis adds a full lifespan of 600 years and includes his death, matching the format of the earlier list of patriarchs.
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Genesis 11:11
Hebrew Bible
10 This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 years old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood. 11 And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters. 12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
Samaritan Genesis 11:11
Samaritan Penteteuch
Samaritan
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And they were all days of Shem six hundred years and he is dying. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty and one hundred years, and begat Salah:
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Notes and References
... The Samaritan Pentateuch and (Vorlage behind the) Septuagint then diverged in featuring yet further adjustments in Genesis 11. The Septuagint reflects the addition of an additional postflood primeval patriarch Kainan (//Genesis 5:9-14), thus making the postflood Shem-to-Abraham genealogy of Genesis 11:10-26 have ten generations corresponding to the ten-generation Adam-to-Noah genealogy of Genesis 5. Along similar lines, the Samaritan Pentateuch conformed the sections of Genesis 11:10-26 to sections in Genesis 5 by adding summaries of the years that each patriarch lived. In addition, the Samaritan Pentateuch reading for Genesis 11:32 has Terah die in the same year that Abraham is reported in Genesis 12:4b to have departed for Canaan (compare Genesis 11:26), thus avoiding the implication (present in the Masoretic and Septuagint readings for Genesis 11:32) that Terah lived another sixty years after Abraham's departure. ...
Carr, David M.
The Formation of Genesis 1-11: Biblical and Other Precursors
(p. 99) Oxford University Press, 2020
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