Genesis 10:32
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All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.
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The words, "And by these were the nations of the earth divided in the earth after the flood," prepare the way for the description of that event which led to the division of the one race into many nations with different languages.
Open source ↗This chapter shows more particularly what was said in general (Gen 9:19), concerning the three sons of Noah, that "of them was the whole earth overspread;" and the fruit of that blessing (Gen 9:1, Gen 9:7), "replenish the earth." Is is the only certain account extant of the origin of nations; and yet perhaps there is no nation but that of the Jews that can be confident from which of these seventy fountains (for so many there are here) it derives its streams. Through the want of early records, the mixtures of people, the revolutions of nations, and distance of time, the knowledge of the lineal descent of the present inhabitants of the earth is lost; nor were any genealogies preserved but those of the Jews, for the sake of the Messiah, only in this chapter we have a brief account, I. Of the posterity of Japheth (Gen 10:2-5). II. The posterity of Ham (Gen 10:6-20), and in this particular notice is taken of Nimrod (Gen 10:8-10). III. The posterity of Shem (Gen 10:21, etc.).
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These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.
These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.