2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
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The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
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The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanites.
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The people who lived by the sea came from all of them. Their tribes and nations spread out into their own territories. Each tribe and nation had its own language.
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.