29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of them were descended from Joktan.
30
The land in which they lived extended from Mesha to Sephar in the eastern hill country.
31
These are the descendants of Shem, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
32
All these peoples are the descendants of Noah, nation by nation, according to their different lines of descent. After the flood all the nations of the earth were descended from the sons of Noah.
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.