Genesis 10

Genesis 10

Genesis 10:1 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10:3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Genesis 10:4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Genesis 10:5 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

Genesis 10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:8 Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first on the land to be a mighty man.

Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahveh. Therefore, it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahveh.”

Genesis 10:10 The first of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:11 From that land Ham went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

Genesis 10:12 Resen (the great city) between Nineveh and Calah.

Genesis 10:13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Genesis 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines descended), and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10:15 Canaan fathered his firstborn Sidon and Heth,

Genesis 10:16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 10:17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Genesis 10:18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites scattered.

Genesis 10:19 But the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:21 To Shem also children were born. He was the ancestor of all the children of Eber, and an older brother of Japheth.

Genesis 10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

Genesis 10:24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.

Genesis 10:25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days the land was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Genesis 10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

Genesis 10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Genesis 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

Genesis 10:30 The region in which they lived extended from Mesha in the route of Sephar to the hill country of the east.

Genesis 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad in the land after the flood.

Genesis 10 quotes:

“What does Genesis 10 tell and teach? It tells that there was a large family upon earth. This was the family of Noah after the flood. Noah survived the flood with his wife and his three sons and their wives. This chapter begins with the names of the three sons given, presumably, in the order of their age, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Then it tells us that these sons in turn had further descendants. The remainder of the chapter is occupied with listing in systematic order those descendants.”

Finegan, Jack. In the Beginning; a Journey through Genesis. [1st ed.] ed., Harper, 1962. p. 64.

“Genesis 1—11 itself contains a clear example of nonchronological order. Genesis 10 depicts various peoples “spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language” (10:5), and then Genesis 11:1-9 tells the antecedent story of oy that situation came about.”

Youngblood, Ronald F. How It All Began: A Bible Commentary for Laymen. GL Regal Books, 1980. p. 28.

“A careful search of the context of Genesis 10:25 clearly reveals that the division of the earth refers to the dividing up of the post-Flood people on the basis of languages and families, and moving them into different geographical locations. In fact, all of Genesis 10 is dedicated to dividing up Noahs family into its three major divisions based on Noah’s three sons and their families, and then to further list the sub-family groups.”

Ham, Ken. The New Answers. Primera edición ed., Master Books, 2006. p. 221.