Genesis 10:18-19

18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

19 ¹The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward ²Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 10:18-19 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.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 34:2-12
• 2. Genesis 14:2, 3

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "was"