Genesis 10:7-17

7 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

8 And Cush begat Nimrod. He began to be powerful in the earth.

9 He was a powerful hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, Even as Nimrod, the powerful hunter before the LORD.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, who built Nineveh and the city Rehoboth and Calah

12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; the same is a great city.

13 And Mizraim begat Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim

14 and Pathrusim and Casluhim (out of whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

15 And Canaan begat Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth

16 and Jebusite and Amorite and Girgasite

17 and Hivite and Arkite and Sinite

Genesis 10:7-17 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.