Genesis 10:5-15

5 From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

6 ¹The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

7 The sons of Cush were ²Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and ³Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were ⁴Sheba and ⁵Dedan.

8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became * a mighty one on the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore * it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."

10 The beginning of his kingdom was ⁶Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of ⁷Shinar.

11 From that land he went forth ⁸into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,

12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

13 Mizraim became the father of ⁹Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim

14 and ¹⁰Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines ) and Caphtorim.

15 Canaan became the father of ¹¹Sidon, his firstborn, and ¹²Heth

Genesis 10:5-15 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. 1 Chronicles 1:8-10
• 2. Isaiah 43:3
• 3. Ezekiel 27:22
• 4. Ezekiel 27:22
• 5. Ezekiel 27:15, 20
• 6. Genesis 11:9
• 7. Genesis 11:2; Genesis 14:1
• 8. Micah 5:6
• 9. Jeremiah 46:9
• 10. 1 Chronicles 1:12
• 11. 1 Chronicles 1:13; Jeremiah 47:4
• 12. Genesis 23:3

Footnotes

• [a] Or "separated themselves"
• [b] Lit "begot"
• [c] Lit "began to be"
• [d] Or "Babylon"
• [e] Lit "begot"
• [f] Lit "begot"