The verse is translated in the KJV as follows, " Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born ".

However, the Revised Standard Version reads, " To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.

" The differing interpretations depend on whether the Hebrew word ha-gadol (" the elder ") is taken as grammatically referring to Japheth, or Shem.

The verse is translated in the KJV as " Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born .".

Both the conquest of Canaan and the curse, according to the Book of Jubilees 10: 29-34, are attributed, rather, to Canaan's steadfast refusal to join his elder brothers in Ham's allotment beyond the Nile, and instead " squatting " within the inheritance of Shem, on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, in the region later promised to Abraham.

The elder Zerachiah was a son of Shem Tov Ha-Levi, one of the greatest Talmudic scholars in Provence, who claimed direct descent of the prophet Samuel, who according to Jewish tradition was a direct descendant of Yitzhar ( hence the family name " Ha-Yitzhari "), son of Kehath, son of Levi, son of Jacob.

Genesis 10: 21 refers to relative ages of Japheth and his brother Shem, but with sufficient ambiguity to have given rise to different translations.

Genesis 10: 21 refers to relative ages of Shem and his brother Japheth, but with sufficient ambiguity to have yielded different translations.

However, the New American Standard Bible gives, " Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

The Shem chapter consists of " Shaun's character assassination of his brother Shem ", describing the hermetic artist as a forger and a " sham ", before " Shem is protected by his mother, who appears at the end to come and defend her son.

" Shaun's answers focus on his own boastful personality and his admonishment of the letter's author – his artist brother Shem.

: 10: 21 Also to Shem, the father of all the Children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ber ( Bertche ) Leifer of Nadvorna was a son of Rabbi Yitzchak of Kalish ( a brother of Rabbi Meir of Premishlan ), a son of Rabbi Aharon Leib of Premishlan, a son of Rabbi Meir Hagadol of Premishlan, a disciple and friend of the Baal Shem Tov.

Marr adopted the term " Japhetic " from Japheth, the name of one of the sons of Noah, in order to characterise his theory that the Kartvelian languages of the Caucasus area were related to the Semitic languages of the Middle East ( named after Shem, Japheth's brother ).

They are listed in the order " Shem, Ham, and Japheth " in Genesis 5: 32 and 9: 18, but treated in the reverse order in chapter 10.

The Book of Jubilees indicates in 4: 33 that Shem was born in the year of the world ( after creation ) 1205, Ham in 1209, and Japheth in 1211.

In his five hundredth year Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.

The dispersion of the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth ( map from the 1854 Historical Textbook and Atlas of Biblical Geography )

sets forth the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the nations branched out over the earth after the Flood.

In medieval Christianity, Noah's three sons were generally considered as the founders of the populations of the three known continents, Japheth / Europe, Shem / Asia, and Ham / Africa, although a rarer variation held that they represented the three classes of medieval society – the priests ( Shem ), the warriors ( Japheth ), and the peasants ( Ham ).

Shem Ham ( son of Noah ) | Ham and Japheth by James Tissot 1904.

For instance the Jewish text Pirqei R. Eliezer, depicts God as dividing the earth among Noah ‘ s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and attributing different skin colors to them ( literally, — blessing “ them with different skin colors ): light colored skin for the

The Persian historian Tabari quotes Ibn Abbas ( d. 686-8 ) as saying: " Born to Noah were Shem, whose descendants ' colors are a black complexion with a light-brownish undertone ( bayādh ) and a dark blackish brown ( Udmah ); Ham, whose descendants ' colors are true black ( sawād ) and a few are a black complexion with a light-brownish undertone ( bayādh qalīl ); and Japheth, whose descendants are very fair-skinned ( al-shuqrah ) and olive-skinned ( al-humrah )".

Bar Hebraeus speaks of Noah dividing the world among his three sons, with Ham getting the Land of the Blacks ( sūdān ), Shem the Land of the Browns ( sumra ), and Japheth the Land of the Reds ( łuqra ).

This T and O map, which abstracts that society's known world to a cross inscribed within an orb, remakes geography in the service of Christian iconography and identifies the three known continents as populated by descendants of Shem ( Sem ), Ham ( Cham ) and Japheth ( Iafeth )

A literal interpretation of suggests that the present population of the world was descended from Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.

Shem, Ham and Japheth.

The continent Asia is peopled by descendants of Sem or Shem, Africa by descendants of Ham and Europe by descendants of Japheth, the sons of Noah.

" Noah has three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and Magog is one of the sons ( the second ) of Japheth:

This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah ’ s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

After the Flood, the sons of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, had stayed first in the highlands of Armenia, and then repaired to Shinar.

European medieval models of race generally mixed Classical ideas with the notion that humanity as a whole was descended from Shem, Ham and Japheth, the three sons of Noah, producing distinct Semitic ( Asiatic ), Hamitic ( African ), and Japhetic ( Indo-European ) peoples.

One account, the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, states that " In the days of Phalek ( Peleg ), the earth was divided a second time among the three sons of Noah ; Shem, Ham and Japheth " — it having been divided once previously among the three sons by Noah himself.

The figure raising Noah's outer and inner garment to expose his nakedness is labelled SEM ( Shem ), rather than CHAM ( Ham ), who is shown looking away toward IAPHET ( Japeth ) who has his hands over his eyes.

According to ISBE, Shem means " dusky ", and Japheth means " fair.

In the Book of Jubilees, it is mentioned as being part of the border, beginning with its easternmost point up to its mouth, between the allotments of sons of Noah, that of Japheth to the north and that of Shem to the south.

Genesis appears to be structured around the recurring phrase elleh toledot, meaning " these are the generations ," with the first use of the phrase referring to the " generations of heaven and earth " and the remainder marking individuals — Noah, the " sons of Noah ", Shem, etc., down to Jacob.

Ruth von Phul was the first to argue that Earwicker was not the dreamer, which triggered a number of similarly-minded views on the matter, although her assertion that Shem was the dreamer has found less support.

The first published draft of " Anna Livia Plurabelle " appeared in Le Navire d ' Argent 1 in October, and the first published draft of " Shem the Penman " appeared in the Autumn – Winter edition of This Quarter.

The first of these, Tales Told of Shem and Shaun was published by Harry and Caresse Crosby's publishing house Black Sun Press.

An Ashkenazi says two blessings when laying tefillin, the first before he ties the arm-tefillin: ... lehani ' ach tefillin, and the second after placing the head tefillin: ... al mitzvat tefillin, thereafter he tightens the head straps and says " Baruch Shem Kovod ...." The Sephardic custom is that no blessing is said for the head-tefillin, the first blessing sufficing for both.

In fact, his first appearance in public was that of an “ ordinary ” Baal Shem.

Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism is regarded by Hasidim, as the first Hasidic rebbe.

The first " rebbe " to be known as such was the Baal Shem Tov's grandson, Rabbi Boruch of Mezhbizh who was referred to as " The Rebbe " during his lifetime.

Rabbi Dov Ber is regarded as the first systematic exponent of the mystical philosophy underlying the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, and through his teaching and leadership, the main architect of the movement.

Yacov Yoseph would later become the author of the first Hasidic book published (" Toldos Yaacov Yosef " in 1780 ), one of the most direct records of the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov.

The first verse of the Shema is recited aloud, simultaneously by the hazzan and the congregation, which responds with the rabbinically instituted Baruch Shem (" Blessed be the Name ") in silence before continuing the rest of Shema.

Martin Buber helped intitate interest in Hasidism among modernized Jews through a series of books he wrote in the first decades of the 20th century, such as Tales of the Hasidic Masters and the Legend of the Baal Shem Tov.

He seems to have remained in latter country until 1777, most probably occupied with the printing of the first part of his biographical dictionary, Shem HaGedolim, ( Livorno, 1774 ), and with his notes on the Shulhan Aruch, entitled Birke Yosef, ( Livorno, 1774 – 76 ).

70 ), Joktan was first made prince over the children of Shem, just as Nimrod and Phenech were princes over the children of Ham and Japheth, respectively.

P is responsible for the first of the two creation stories in Genesis ( Genesis 1 ), for Adam's genealogy, part of the Flood story, the Table of Nations, and the genealogy of Shem ( i. e., Abraham's ancestry ).

Rabbi Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezeritch or " Great Maggid ", is regarded as the first exponent of the philosophical system within the Baal Shem Tov's new teachings and doctrines, and one of its most important propagators.

The first Skverer Rebbe was Rabbi Hershele of Skver ( Reb Hershele Skverer ), a direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov.

The Baal Shem Tov used short, soulful analogies, alluded teachings and encouraging anecdotes in first reaching out to revive the common folk, while parables of other masters were integrated within their classic works of Hasidic thought.