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Genesis 10:6-12

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6 1The 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]
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
10 The beginning of his kingdom was 2Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in 3the 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.
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Genesis 10:6-12 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 3

  • 1. For ver. 6-8, see 1 Chronicles 1:8-10
  • 2. Genesis 11:9
  • 3. Genesis 11:2

Footnotes 1

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