Here is another ten-generation genealogy stretching from Shem to Terah/Abraham. A possible connection between 11:1–9 and 11:10–32 is that in the former section some people wanted to make a name (Hebrew shem) for themselves, and 11:10–32 is the family tree of Shem. The list is much like that in 10:21, 24–25. Four of the names are repeated—Arphaxad, She…