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.
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Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the descendants of Joktan.
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The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country of the east.
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These are the descendants of Shem, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
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