Genesis 10:10-20

10 The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.
11 Asshur left that land and built Nineveh, Rehoboth City, Calah,
12 and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14 Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, from which the Philistines came.
15 Canaan fathered Sidon his oldest son, and Heth,
16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. After this the Canaanite clans were dispersed.
19 The Canaanite boundary extends from Sidon by way of Gerar to Gaza and by way of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim to Lasha.
20 These are Ham's sons according to their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 10

This chapter gives an account of the posterity of the three sons of Noah, by whom the world was peopled after the flood, Ge 10:1 of the posterity of Japheth, Ge 10:2-5 of the posterity of Ham, Ge 10:6-20 and of the posterity of Shem, Ge 10:21-32.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or Casluhim, from which the Philistines set out, and Caphtorim
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