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Genesis 10:1
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Now these are the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.
These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde.
This is the history of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They are Noah's sons. These men had children after the flood.
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; sons were born to them after the flood.
These ben the generaciouns of the sones of Noe, Sem, Cham, and Jafeth. And sones weren borun to hem aftir the greet flood.
Now these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Iaphet: and vnto them were sonnes borne after the Flood.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
This is the generacion of the childre of Noe, Sem, Ham, and Iaphet, & they begat children after the floude.
This is the family tree of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the flood, they themselves had sons.
Now these are the records of the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, namely, of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, [namely], of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.
Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
1 Chronicles 1:5-27">[xr] Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
After the flood Shem, Ham, and Japheth had many descendants.
Here is the genealogy of the sons of Noach — Shem, Ham and Yefet; sons were born to them after the flood.
And these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and to them were sons born after the flood.
Now these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Shem, Ham and Iapheth: vnto whom sonnes were borne after the flood.
NOW these are the descendants of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.
These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. These three had sons after the flood.
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noach and of Shem, Ham, and Yefet. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.
This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many children were born to them after the great flood.
These are the families of Shem, Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and of their families. Sons were born to them after the flood.
These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem Ham and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
Now, these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and there were born to them sons after the flood.
These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.
These are the generations of the sons of Noah—Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Children were born to them after the flood.
And these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.
These are the family records of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.
And these [are] births of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and born to them are sons after the deluge.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
are the: Genesis 2:4, Genesis 5:1, Genesis 6:9, Matthew 1:1
and unto: Genesis 9:1, Genesis 9:7, Genesis 9:19
Reciprocal: Genesis 5:32 - Shem Genesis 7:13 - and Shem Genesis 9:18 - Shem Genesis 10:32 - are the Genesis 37:2 - the generations Numbers 3:1 - generations 1 Chronicles 1:5 - General 2 Chronicles 14:13 - Gerar
Cross-References
This is the history of [the origin of] the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day [that is, days of creation] that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens—
This is the book (the written record, the history) of the generations of [the descendants of] Adam. When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness].
These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
"As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."
These are the three sons of Noah, and from these [men] the whole earth was populated and scattered with inhabitants.
The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son (descendant) of David, the son (descendant) of Abraham:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah,.... The genealogy of them, and which is of great use to show the original of the several nations of the world, from whence they sprung, and by whom they were founded; and to confute the pretended antiquity of some nations, as the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Chinese, and others; and to point out the particular people, which were to be the seat of the church of God for many ages, and from whom the Messiah was to spring; which seems to be the principal view of the history of Moses, and of this genealogy, with which should be compared 1 Chronicles 1:1 Shem, Ham, and Japheth; see Genesis 5:32
and unto them were sons born after the flood; for they had none born to them either before the flood or in it; they were married before the flood, for their wives went into the ark with them; but it does not appear they had any children before, though they then were near an hundred years old; and if they had, they were not in the ark, and therefore must perish with the rest, which is not likely: Shem's son Arphaxad was born two years after the flood, Genesis 11:10 when the rest were born, either his or his brethren's, is not said; however they were all born after the flood; though some pretend that Canaan was born in the ark y, during the flood, for which there is no authority; yea, it is confuted in this chapter, where Canaan stands among the sons of Ham, born to him after the flood.
y See Bayle's Dictionary, vol. 10. art. "Ham", p. 587.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- Section VIII - The Nations
- Japheth
2. ××ר gomer, âGomer, completion; related: complete;â ÎιμμεÌÏιοι Kimmerioi. ×××× maÌgoÌg, âMagog, Caucasian, Skyth.â ××× maÌday, âMadai, middle: Mede.â ××× yaÌvaÌn, âJavanâ; ÎÌαÌÏν IaoÌn; âSanskrit, Javana; Old Persian, Juna.â ת×× tubaÌl, âTubalâ; ΤιβαÏÎ·Î½Î¿Î¹Ì Tibareenoi. ×ש×× meshek, âMeshek, drawing possession, valorâ; ÎοÌÏÏοι Moschoi, ת×רס tıÌyraÌs, âTiras;â ÎÏÎ±Í Íξ Thrax.
3. ×ש××× × 'ashkenaz, âAshkenaz,â ÎÌÏκαÌÎ½Î¹Î¿Ï Askanios. ר×פת rıÌypat, âRiphath,â οÌÌÏη ΡÌιÌÏαια oree Ripaia, ת×ר×× togarmaÌh âTogarmah, Thorgom, ancestor of the Armenians.â
4. ×××ש×× 'elıÌyshaÌh, âElishah;â ÎÌÍÎ»Î¹Ï Eelis, ÎÌλλαÌÏ Hellas, ÎιÌολειÍÏ Aioleis. ת×ש×××©× tarshıÌysh, âTarshish, breaking, fastness: Tartessus, Tarsus, Tyrseni.â ×ת×× kıÌtıÌym, âKittim, smiters; Citienses;â ÎαÍÏÎµÏ Kares; ××× ×× dodaÌnıÌym, âDodanim, Dodona, Dardani.â
5. ×× 'ıÌy, âmeadow, land reached by water, island; related: be marked off or bounded (by a water line).â ××× goÌy, ânation; related: be born;â γεγαÌαÏι gegaasi.
The fifth document relates to the generations of the sons of Noah. It presents first a genealogy of the nations, and then an account of the distribution of mankind into nations, and their dispersion over the earth. This is the last section which treats historically of the whole human race. Only in incidental, didactic, or prophetic passages do we again meet with mankind as a whole in the Old Testament.
The present chapter signalizes a new step in the development of the human race. They pass from the one family to the seventy nations. This great process covers the space of time from Noah to Abraham. During this period the race was rapidly increasing under the covenant made with Noah. From Shem to Abraham were ten generations inclusive; and, therefore, if we suppose the same rate of increase after as we have supposed before, there would be about fifteen million inhabitants when Abraham was thirty years of age. If, however, we take eight as the average of a family, and suppose eleven generations after Shem at the one hundredth year of Abrahamâs life, we have about thirty million people on the earth. The average of the three sons of Noah is higher than this; for they had sixteen sons, and we may suppose as many daughters, making in all thirty-two, and, therefore, giving ten children to each household. The present chapter does not touch on the religious aspect of human affairs: it merely presents a table of the primary nations, from which all subsequent nationalities have been derived.
Genesis 10:1-2
The sons of Japheth. - Japheth is placed first, because he was, most probably, the oldest brother Genesis 9:24; Genesis 10:21, and his descendants were the most numerous and most widely spread from the birthplace of mankind. The general description of their territory is âthe isles of the nations.â These were evidently maritime countries, or such as were reached by sea. These coastlands were pre-eminently, but not exclusively, the countries bordering on the north side of the Mediterranean and its connected waters. They are said to belong to the nations, because the national form of association was more early and fully developed among them than among the other branches of the race. There is, probably, a relic of Japheth in the, ÎαÏεÏοÌÏ Iapetos, Japetus of the Greeks, said to be the son of Uranus (heaven), and Gaea (earth), and father of Prometheus, and thus in some way connected with the origin or preservation of the human race.
Fourteen of the primitive nations spring from Japheth. Seven of these are of immediate descent.
(1) Gomer is mentioned again, in Ezekiel Ezekiel 38:6, as the ally of Gog, by which the known existence of the nation at that period is indicated. Traces of this name are perhaps found in the ÎιμμεÌÏιοι Kimmerioi, (Homer, Odyssey Ezekiel 11:14; Herodotus Ezekiel 1:15; Ezekiel 4:12), who lay in the dark north, in the Krimea, the Kimbri who dwelt in north Germany, the Kymry, Cambri, and Cumbri who occupied Britain. These all belong to the race now called Keltic, the first wave of population that reached the Atlantic. Thus, the ÎομαÏειÍÏ Gomareis, of Josephus (Ant. 1:6.1) may even be identified with the Galatae. This nation seems to have lain to the north of the Euxine, and to have spread out along the southern coasts of the Baltic into France, Spain, and the British Isles.
(2) Magog is mentioned, by Ezekiel Ezekiel 38:6, as the people of which Gog was the prince. It is introduced in the Apocalypse Revelation 20:8, as a designation of the remote nations who had penetrated to the ends or corners of the earth. This indicates a continually progressing people, occupying the north of Europe and Asia, and crossing, it may be, over into America. They seem to have been settled north of the Caspian, and to have wandered north and east from that point. They are accordingly identified by Josephus (Ant. 1:6.1) with the Skyths, and include the Mongols among other Skythic tribes.
(3) Madai has given name to the Medes, who occupied the southern shore of the Caspian. From this region they penetrated southward to Hindostan.
(4) Javan is traced in the ÎαÌÎ¿Î½ÎµÏ Iaones, Iones, who settled in the coasts of the Aegean, in Peloponnesus, Attica, and subsequently on the coast of Asia Minor, and accordingly denotes the Greeks in the language of the Old Testament Isaiah 66:19; Ezekiel 27:13; Daniel 8:21. The name Yunau is found in the cuneiform inscriptions of the times of Sargon, referring to a western people.
(5) Tubal and (6) Meshek are generally associated. (Ezekiel 27:13; Ezekiel 38:0; Ezekiel 39:0) connects them, on the one hand, with Magog, and on the other, with Javan. Josephus (Ant. 1:6.1) finds Tubal in Iberia, and Meshek in Cappadocia, tracing the name in Mazaca. Their names are seemingly detected in the Tibareni and Moschi, and their seat was probably between the Euxine and the Caspian, whence they spread themselves northward and westward. The names of the rivers Tobal and Mosqua bear a strong resemblance to these patriarchal names.
(7) Tiras is referred by Josephus to Thrace. The name is perhaps discernible in the Tyras or Dniester. The seat of the nation was east of the Euxine, whence it spread to the north. Thus, we have the original starting-points of these seven nations about the Caspian, the Euxine, and the Aegean Seas.
Genesis 10:3
Gomer has three sons, who are the founders of as many nations.
(8) Ashkenaz is supposed to have lain south of the Euxine, and to be traceable in its original name αÌÌÎ¾ÎµÎ½Î¿Ï axenos, and in the Ascanius and Ascania of Bithynia, perhaps in Scandinavia. Part of the nation may have migrated to Germany, which is called Ashkenaz by the Jews, and where the word Sachsen (Saxon) occurs. It perhaps contains the root of the name Asia.
(9) Riphath seems to have travelled north, and left his name in the Rhipaean mountains. Josephus, however, places him in Paphlagonia, where the name Tobata occurs (Diphath) 1 Chronicles 1:6.
(10) Togarmah is said to have been settled in Armenia. By a tradition in Moses Chorenensis, Haik, the ancestor of the Armenians, is the son of Thorgom, the son of Gomer. At all events, the Black Sea might convey colonies from Gomer to Asia Minor and Armenia.
Genesis 10:4
Javan has four sons, who are the heads of nations.
(11) Elishah is noted by Ezekiel Ezekiel 27:7 as a nation whose maritime country produced purple, which agrees with the coast of Laconia or the Corinthian Gulf. The name has been variously sought in Elis, Hellas, and Aeolis. The last is due to Josephus. It is possible that Elea or Velia, in the south of Italy, may contain some reference to the name.
(12) Tarshish is conjectured by Josephus to be the people of Cilicia; which, he affirms, was anciently called Tharsus, and the capital of which was Tarsus. But whether this be the primitive seat of Tarshish or not, it is almost certain that Spain retains the name, if not in Tarraco, at least in Tartessus.
(13) Kittim is discovered, by Josephus, in Cyprus, where we meet with the town of Citium ÎιÌÏιον Kition. He adds, however, that all the islands and the greater part of the seacoasts are called ΧεδιÌμ Chedim by the Hebrews. We may therefore presume that the Kittim spread into northern Greece, where we have a ÎιÌÏιον Kition in Macedonia, and ultimately into Italy, which is designated as âthe isles of Kittimâ Numbers 24:24; Isaiah 23:1; Jeremiah 2:10; Ezekiel 27:6; Daniel 11:30.
(14) Dodanim leaves a trace, perhaps, in Dodona, an ancient site of the Hellenes in Epirus, and perhaps in Dardania, a district of Illyricum.
Genesis 10:5
Thus, we have discovered the ancient seats of Japheth, Iapetos - , around the Caspian, the Euxine, the Aegean, and the north of the Mediterranean. From these coastlands they seem to have spread over Europe, northern, western, and southern Asia, and, both by Behringâs Straits and the Atlantic, they at length poured into America. So true is it that Japheth was enlarged, and that by them were âthe isles of the nations divided.â
In their nations. - We here note the characteristics of a nation. First. It is descended from one head. Others may be occasionally grafted on the original stock by intermarriage. But there is a vital union subsisting between all the members and the head, in consequence of which the name of the head is applied to the whole body of the nation. In the case of Kittim and Dodanim we seem to have the national name thrown back upon the patriarchs, who may have themselves been called Keth and Dodan. Similar instances occur in the subsequent parts of the genealogy. Second. A nation has a country or âlandâ which it calls its own. In the necessary migrations of ancient tribes, the new territories appropriated by the tribe, or any part of it, were naturally called by the old name, or some name belonging to the old country. This is well illustrated by the name of Gomer, which seems to reappear in the Cimmerii, the Cimbri, the Cymri, the Cambri, and the Cumbri. Third. A nation has its own âtongue.â This constitutes at once its unity in itself and its separation from others. Many of the nations in the table may have spoken cognate tongues, or even originally the same tongue. Thus, the Kenaanite, Phoenician, and Punic nations had the same stock of languages with the Shemites. But it is a uniform law, that one nation has only one speech within itself. Fourth. A nation is composed of many âfamilies,â clans, or tribes. These branch off from the nation in the same manner as it did from the parent stock of the race.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER X
The generations of the sons of Noah, 1.
JAPHETH and his descendants, 2-4.
The isles of the Gentiles, or Europe, peopled by the
Japhethites, 5.
HAM and his posterity, 6-20.
Nimrod, one of his descendants, a mighty hunter, 8, 9,
founds the first kingdom, 10.
Nineveh and other cities founded, 11, 12.
The Canaanites in their nine grand branches or families, 15-18.
Their territories, 19.
SHEM and his posterity, 21-31.
The earth divided in the days of Peleg, 25.
The territories of the Shemites, 30.
The whole earth peopled by the descendants of Noah's three
sons, 32.
NOTES ON CHAP. X
Verse Genesis 10:1. Now these are the generations — It is extremely difficult to say what particular nations and people sprang from the three grand divisions of the family of Noah, because the names of many of those ancient people have become changed in the vast lapse of time from the deluge to the Christian era; yet some are so very distinctly marked that they can be easily ascertained, while a few still retain their original names.
Moses does not always give the name of the first settler in a country, but rather that of the people from whom the country afterwards derived its name. Thus Mizraim is the dual of Mezer, and could never be the name of an individual. The like may be said of Kittim, Dodanim, Ludim, Ananim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim, Philistim, and Caphtorim, which are all plurals, and evidently not the names of individuals, but of families or tribes. See Genesis 10:4; Genesis 10:6; Genesis 10:13; Genesis 10:14.
In the posterity of Canaan we find whole nations reckoned in the genealogy, instead of the individuals from whom they sprang; thus the Jebusite, Amorite, Girgasite, Hivite, Arkite, Sinite, Arvadite, Zemarite, and Hamathite, Genesis 10:16-18, were evidently whole nations or tribes which inhabited the promised land, and were called Canaanites from Canaan, the son of Ham, who settled there.
Moses also, in this genealogy, seems to have introduced even the name of some places that were remarkable in the sacred history, instead of the original settlers. Such as Hazarmaveth, Genesis 10:26; and probably Ophir and Havilah, Genesis 10:29. But this is not infrequent in the sacred writings, as may be seen 1 Chronicles 2:51, where Salma is called the father of Bethlehem, which certainly never was the name of a man, but of a place sufficiently celebrated in the sacred history; and in 1 Chronicles 4:14, where Joab is called the father of the valley of Charashim, which no person could ever suppose was intended to designate an individual, but the society of craftsmen or artificers who lived there.
Eusebius and others state (from what authority we know not) that Noah was commanded of God to make a will and bequeath the whole of the earth to his three sons and their descendants in the following manner: - To Shem, all the East; to Ham, all Africa; to Japheth, the Continent of Europe with its isles, and the northern parts of Asia. See the notes at the end of the preceding chapter. Genesis 9:29.
