Genesis - 11:13



13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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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 Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four 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 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.
And Arpachshad lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Kenan, and fathered sons and daughters. And Kenan lived a hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah. And Kenan lived after he had become the father of Shelah three hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.
And after he conceived Shelah, Arphaxad lived for three hundred and three years, and he conceived sons and daughters.
Et vixit Arphachsad, postquam genuit Selah, tres annos et quadringentos annos: et genuit filios et filias.

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And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years,.... In all four hundred and thirty eight; the Vulgate Latin wrongly reads, three hundred and three:
and begat sons and daughters; not mentioned by name: he died, as the above Arabic writer (z) says, in the month Nisan, A. M. 2696; and a Jewish writer (a) says he died in the forty eighth year of Isaac, and who also says (b), that in his days they began to build the city of Babel.
(z) Apud Ibid. p. 260. (a) R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.) (b) Ib. fol. 75. 1.

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