Genesis 10:3-23

3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarmah.
4 The sons of Yavan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
6 The sons of Ham: Kush, Mitzrayim, Put, and Kana`an.
7 The sons of Kush: Seva, Havilah, Savtah, Ra`mah, and Savtekha. The sons of Ra`mah: Sheva and Dedan.
8 Kush became the father of Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the eretz.
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 Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar.
11 Out of that land he went forth into Ashshur, and built Nineveh, Rechovot-Ir, Kelach,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and Kelach (the same is the great city).
13 Mitzrayim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehavim, Naftuchim,
14 Patrusim, Kasluchim (which the Pelishtim descended from), and Kaftorim.
15 Kana`an became the father of Tzidon (his firstborn), Het,
16 the Yevusi, the Amori, the Girgashi,
17 the Hivvi, the `Arki, the Sini,
18 the Arvadi, the Tzemari, and the Hamati. Afterward the families of the Kana`anim were spread abroad.
19 The border of the Kana`anim was from Tzidon, as you go toward Gerar, to `Aza; as you go toward Sedom, `Amorah, Admah, and Tzevoyim, to Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
21 To Shem, the father of all the children of `Ever, the elder brother of Yefet, to him also were children born.
22 The sons of Shem: `Elam, Ashshur, Arpakhshad, Lud, and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram: `Utz, Hul, Geter, and Mash.

Genesis 10:3-23 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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