Genesis 10:11-21

11 He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12 and Resen, the great city between Nineveh and Calah.
13 Egypt was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
14 Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
15 Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,
16 also the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite families scattered.
19 The border of the Canaanites extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.
20 These were Ham's descendants by families and languages within their countries and nations.
21 Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had children. [Shem was] the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

Genesis 10:11-21 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.

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