Genesis 10:10-18

10 The beginning of his kingdom was 1Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in 2the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
13 3Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom[a] the Philistines came), and 4Caphtorim.
15 5Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.

Genesis 10:10-18 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 5

  • 1. Genesis 11:9
  • 2. Genesis 11:2
  • 3. For ver. 13-18, see 1 Chronicles 1:11-16
  • 4. Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4; Amos 9:7
  • 5. [Genesis 15:18-21]

Footnotes 1

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