Genesis 10:10-20

10 At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
11 From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
13 The descendants of Egypt were the people of Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,
14 Pathrus, Casluh, and of Crete, from whom the Philistines are descended.
15 Canaan's sons - Sidon, the oldest, and Heth - were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
16 Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. The different tribes of the Canaanites spread out,
19 until the Canaanite borders reached from Sidon southward to Gerar near Gaza, and eastward to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim near Lasha.
20 These are the descendants of Ham, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.

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 1

  • [a]. [Probable text] and of Crete . . . descended; [Hebrew] from whom the Philistines are descended, and Crete.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.