Genesis 10:15-32

15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,^[a] and of the Hittites,

16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,

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

19 and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

The Semites

21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was^[b] Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.

23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.^[c]

24 Arphaxad was the father of^[d] Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.

25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg,^[e] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

26 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

31 These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

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Genesis 10:15-32 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 28

1. ver 6; S Genesis 9:18
2. ver 19; Joshua 11:8; Judges 10:6; Isaiah 23:2,4; Jeremiah 25:22; Jeremiah 27:3; Jeremiah 47:4; Ezekiel 28:21; Ezekiel 32:30; Joel 3:4; Zechariah 9:2
3. Exodus 4:22; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 3:2; Numbers 18:15; Numbers 26:5; Numbers 33:4
4. Genesis 15:20; Genesis 23:3,20; Genesis 25:10; Genesis 26:34; Genesis 27:46; Genesis 49:32; Numbers 13:29; Joshua 1:4; 1 Samuel 26:6; Ezekiel 16:3
5. Judges 19:10; 1 Chronicles 11:4; Ezra 9:1
6. Exodus 3:8; Numbers 13:29; Numbers 21:13; Numbers 32:39; Deuteronomy 1:4; Joshua 2:10; 2 Chronicles 8:7
7. Genesis 15:18-21; Deuteronomy 7:1
8. Genesis 34:2; Genesis 36:2; Exodus 3:8; Deuteronomy 7:1; Judges 3:3
9. Ezekiel 27:8
10. 1 Chronicles 18:3
11. Genesis 12:6; Genesis 13:7; Genesis 50:11; Exodus 13:11; Numbers 13:29; Numbers 14:25; Numbers 21:3; Numbers 33:40; Deuteronomy 1:7; Judges 1:1
12. Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:1; Genesis 13:12; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 24:3; Genesis 26:34; Genesis 27:46; Genesis 28:1,6,8; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 35:6; Genesis 37:1; Leviticus 25:38
13. S ver 15; Genesis 49:13; Joshua 19:28; Judges 1:31; Judges 18:28; 2 Samuel 24:6
14. 2 Chronicles 14:13
15. Deuteronomy 2:23; Joshua 10:41; Joshua 11:22; Joshua 15:47; Judges 1:18; Judges 6:4; Judges 16:1,21; 1 Samuel 6:17; Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:1; Amos 1:6; Zephaniah 2:4
16. Genesis 14:2; Deuteronomy 29:23
17. ver 24; Numbers 24:24
18. Genesis 14:1; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 21:2; Jeremiah 25:25; Jeremiah 49:34; Ezekiel 32:24; Daniel 8:2
19. Numbers 24:22,24; Ezekiel 27:23
20. Luke 3:36
21. Judges 3:10; 1 Kings 11:25; 1 Kings 19:15; 1 Kings 20:34; 1 Kings 22:31; 2 Kings 5:1; 2 Kings 8:7
22. Genesis 22:21; Job 1:1; Jeremiah 25:20; Lamentations 4:21
23. S ver 21; Luke 3:35
24. Ezekiel 27:19
25. 1 Kings 10:1; Job 6:19; Psalms 72:10,15; Isaiah 60:6; Ezekiel 27:22
26. 1 Kings 9:28; 1 Kings 10:11; 1 Chronicles 29:4; Job 22:24; Job 28:16; Psalms 45:9; Isaiah 13:12
27. S ver 1
28. S Genesis 9:19

Footnotes 5

[a]. Or "of the Sidonians, the foremost"
[b]. Or "Shem, the older brother of"
[c]. See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:17; Hebrew "Mash" .
[d]. Hebrew; Septuagint "father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of"
[e]. "Peleg" means "division."