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The Samaritan version of Genesis and the Greek Septuagint both end each generation after the flood with a note that the man died, matching the pattern in Genesis 5. The Masoretic Hebrew text lists their years but does not mention their deaths.
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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:
LXX Genesis 11:11
Septuagint
10 And these are the generations of Sem: Sem was a son of one hundred years when he became the father of Arphaxad, in the second year after the flood. 11 And Sem lived after he became the father of Arphaxad five hundred years and had sons and daughters and died. 12 And Arphaxad lived one hundred thirty-five years and became the father of Kainan.
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Notes and References
... a Vorlage that also likely included a slight adaptation (seen in the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch) of each section on postflood patriarchs in Genesis 11:10–26 with a report that “he died” so that these sections better matched the sections on preflood patriarchs in Genesis 5*. 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 Καιναν (//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. ...
Carr, David M.
The Formation of Genesis 1-11: Biblical and Other Precursors
(p. 99) Oxford University Press, 2020
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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