Genesis 10:5-15

5 The seafaring peoples developed from these, each in its own place by family, each with its own language.
6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan.
7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, Dedan.
8 Cush also had Nimrod. He was the first great warrior on Earth.
9 He was a great hunter before God. There was a saying, "Like Nimrod, a great hunter before God."
10 His kingdom got its start with Babel; then Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the country of Shinar.
11 From there he went up to Asshur and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12 and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
13 Egypt was ancestor to the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim,
14 the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (the origin of the Philistines), and the Kaphtorim.
15 Canaan had Sidon his firstborn, Heth,

Genesis 10:5-15 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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