Nations Descended from Noah

Genesis 10

1 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

2 k The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, l Tarshish, m Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 From these n the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

6 o The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. 1 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 p Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in q the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. 13 r Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom 2 the Philistines came), and s Caphtorim.

15 t Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth, 16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed. 19 And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

21 To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born. 22 The u sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arpachshad fathered v Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. 25 w To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, 3 for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 x Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, y and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 10:1 - 5
    These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
    1 Chronicles 1:5 - 7
    The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
    Ezekiel 38:1 - 6
    The word of the Lord came to me:
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 72:10
    May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
    Ezekiel 38:13
    Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, 'Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 24:24
    But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction.
    Isaiah 23:1
    The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
    Isaiah 23:12
    And he said: "You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest.
    Daniel 11:30
    For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
    Jeremiah 2:10
    For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
    Jeremiah 25:22
    All the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea.
    Ezekiel 27:6
    Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.
    Zephaniah 2:11
    The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 10:6 - 8
    The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
    1 Chronicles 1:8 - 10
    The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 11:9
    Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 11:2
    And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 10:13 - 18
    Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim.
    1 Chronicles 1:11 - 16
    Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim.
  9. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:23
    As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)
    Jeremiah 47:4
    Because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the Lord is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
    Amos 9:7
    Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares the Lord. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
  10. Cross References
    Genesis 15:18 - 21
    On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
  11. Cross References
    Genesis 10:22 - 29
    The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
    1 Chronicles 1:17 - 25
    The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 11:12
    When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.
    Luke 3:35 - 36
    The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah.
  13. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 1:19
    To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his brother's name was Joktan.
  14. Cross References
    1 Kings 9:28
    And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
    1 Kings 10:11
    Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
  15. Cross References
    Genesis 10:1
    These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
    Genesis 9:19
    These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.
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