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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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Shem, the son of Noah, was present at the burial, and showed the place to his descendants, who transmitted the knowledge to their descendants, and the lineal descendants of these introduced themselves to us to-day.
 
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