Joel Baden

Ah - there’s no difference. I don’t have any way of knowing *who* inserted this (or any other later insertion) or *when* it was inserted. I care that it’s not from any of the sources and has to have been done in light of their combination. So anyone from the redactor to Augustine is fine by me.

Yes;

hundreds of different people over hundreds of years;

Literally anyone.

Right! That’s where the secondary hand here got the information from. Gen 11 follows the line of Arpachshad down to Abraham. And Eber is of course on the way.

The J genealogy of Shem begins in 10:21. In J, Shem is the father of Eber. Goes straight from 10:21 to 10:25. In P, Shem is the father of a bunch of people, mostly notably Aram. 10:24, though, has Arpachshad (a P character) as the grandfather of Eber (a J character). It’s a bridge verse.

Sure! The crucial point is that there are two interwoven genealogies here: one from P, which is identifiable because every verse begins with either “these” or “the descendants of x,” and one from J (non-P for the haters), which is everything else. The P genealogy of Shem begins in 10:22-23.

Deuteronomy 4:16b-18

Deuteronomy 3:17

Deuteronomy 3:11

Deuteronomy 3:9

Deuteronomy 2:20-24

Deuteronomy 2:14-16

Deuteronomy 2:10-12

Deuteronomy 1:39

Numbers 34:13-29

Numbers 33:1-49

Numbers 32:7-15

Numbers 26:19

Numbers 26:8-11

Numbers 25:8b-9

Numbers 22:2

Numbers 21:33-35

Exodus 34:10-27

Exodus 33:2

Exodus 32:9-14

Exodus 27:20-21

Exodus 20:1-17 (14 in English)

Exodus 19:22

Exodus 18:8-11

Exodus 16:36 (a personal favorite)

Exodus 16:7