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Shem
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Shem, in the Bible, eldest son of Noah; presented as the ancestor of the Semites, particularly of the Hebrews and Arabs. An apocalypse called the Paraphrase of Shem was found among the Nag Hammadi Nag Hammadi (näg hä`mädi)
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 codices. The Treatise of Shem, known from a 15th-century Syriac manuscript, is an astrological almanac.
Shem
Old Testament the eldest of Noah's three sons (Genesis 10:21)


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