Quotes About Shem

I know lords in Shem who would trade the secret of the Elephant Tower for her," he said, returning to his ale.

A faint but discomfortable memory of a screaming face surfaced in Shem's mind.

Daniel felt now as if the weight of history, the history of Shem's people was pressing like a crowd of ghosts upon his mind.

Shem noticed a reserve in Daniel's tone, a stony reticence that had not been there before.

Daniel glanced at Shem, who raised a single, scornful eyebrow. He reached out and touched Daniel's face, as if they were alone in the room. Daniel could not help but derive a certain amount of satisfaction from the gesture.

I, and your other supporters, despised Anu's hollow sanctimony. We were filled with a fire to rebel against all that Kharsag stood for. You made us see the truth, Shem, the lie of it. You were our glorious leader. We would have followed you anywhere.

He watched Daniel develop friendships with the Kurds, and recognised the barbs of jealousy in his heart. When the child Adina put her arms around Daniel and nestled against him, Shem yearned to be in her place.

And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and tenth year of the life of Isaac, that is in the fiftieth year of the life of Jacob, in that year died Shem the son of Noah; Shem was six hundred years old at his death. And when Shem died Jacob returned to his father to Hebron which is in the land of Canaan." Ancient Book of Jasher 28:24-25

He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.

The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.