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  • In Samuel Shem's The House of God four generations of a family gather for dinner, and Rose's turn provides fun for young and old.

    The Fifth Nixon 2005

  • In Samuel Shem's The House of God four generations of a family gather for dinner, and Rose's turn provides fun for young and old.

    The Fifth Nixon 2005

  • [2480] Now, in what he said, he foretold that the descendants of Shem would keep in retention the property and dwellings of Canaan: and again that the descendants of Japheth would take possession of the property of which Shem's descendants had dispossessed Canaan's descendants; and spoil the descendants of Shem, even as they plundered the sons of

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Abraham's being first named doth not prove him to have been the eldest son of Terah, no more than Shem's being first named among Noah's three sons proves him to have been the first-born.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Stalls packed with richly woven clothing, worked metals, and medicines crowded others heaped high with Shem's bountiful harvest of dates, figs, grapes, pomegranates, and almonds.

    Conan and the Emerald Lotus Hocking, John 1995

  • Shem's desert climate permitted no rust to set in; even if rain had fallen upon the fortress, none would have come into the chamber through the solidly built stone roof.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • All around her were the vast, impassable steppes of Shem's parched, lifeless desert.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • Besides, though Shem's descendants are mentioned last, we are not on that account to suppose that Shem was the youngest son of Noah.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • To try to make God the subject would render Japheth even more richly blessed than Shem, a situation which would have called for a "blessed" upon Japheth's lot rather than upon Shem's.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Shem's blessings, for as Gentiles they have been grafted on the good olive tree.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

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