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The Semitic peoples of the Middle East are supposedly all descended from Noah’s son Shem. It is the Semitic languages and cultures, rather than a shared genetic inheritance, which determined if someone was or is a Semite. According to the Bible, Shem lived until he was 600, and one of his descendants was Abraham.