Genesis 10:15-25

15 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and the Hittites,

16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterwards the Canaanite clans scattered.

19 The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

20 These are Ham's sons, by their clans, according to their languages, in their own lands and their nations.

21 And Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had children. Shem was the father of all the children of Eber.^[a]

22 Shem's sons were Elam, Asshur,^[b] Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

23 Aram's sons: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

24 Arpachshad fathered^[c] Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

25 Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided;^[d] his brother was named Joktan.

Genesis 10:15-25 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] Gn 11:13-14
• [b] Or Assyria
• [c] LXX reads fathered Cainan, and Cainan fathered; Gn 11:12-13; Lk 3:35-36
• [d] Gn 11:8; Ps 55:9