Genesis 10:1-8

Nations Descended from Noah

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

2 ¹The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

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

4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, ²Tarshish, ³Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 From these ⁴the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

6 ⁵The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

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

8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.^[a]

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Genesis 10:1-8 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 5

1. For ver. 1-5, see 1 Chronicles 1:5-7; Ezekiel 38:1-6
2. Psalms 72:10; Ezekiel 38:13
3. Numbers 24:24; Isaiah 23:1, 12; Daniel 11:30
4. Isaiah 11:11; Jeremiah 2:10; Jeremiah 25:22; Ezekiel 27:6; Zephaniah 2:11
5. For ver. 6-8, see 1 Chronicles 1:8-10

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth

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