Genesis 10:2-12

2 Japheth's sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

3 Gomer's sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 Javan's sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

5 From these the island-nations were divided into their own countries, each according to their languages and their clans within their nations.

6 Ham's sons: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

7 Cush's sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's sons: Sheba and Dedan.

8 Cush fathered Nimrod, the first great warrior on earth.

9 The LORD saw him as a great hunter, and so it is said, "Like Nimrod, whom the LORD saw as a great hunter."

10 The most important cities in his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

11 Asshur left that land and built Nineveh, Rehoboth City, Calah,

12 and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.

Genesis 10:2-12 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.

Footnotes

• [a] LXX, Sam, 1 Chron 1:7; MT Dodanim