Genesis 10:10-20

10 His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech,^[a] Accad,^[b] and Calneh,^[c] in the land of Shinar.^[d]

11 From that land he went to Assyria^[e] and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

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

13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtorim.^[f]

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.

Genesis 10:10-20 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]. Or Uruk
• [b]. Or Akkad
• [c]. Or and all of them
• [d]. Or in Babylonia
• [e]. Mc 5:6
• [f]. Jr 47:4; Am 9:7