Genesis 10:27-32

27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
29 1Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
30 The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, 2and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:27-32 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.

Cross References 2

  • 1. 1 Kings 9:28; 1 Kings 10:11
  • 2. ver. 1; Genesis 9:19
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