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    Genesis 10

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    Peleg is given a name, a brother, and one splendidly unexplained disturbance: in his days the earth was divided.

    The families of Japhethvv. 1–5

    The chapter opens with Noah’s three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and then follows Japheth’s line through Gomer and Javan. Their descendants become maritime peoples, separating into territories, languages, clans, and nations. It is a genealogy with a map quietly folded inside it.

    Ham’s line and the sudden appearance of Nimrodvv. 6–20

    Ham’s descendants spread through Cush, Mizraim, and Canaan. Then Cush’s son Nimrod steps out of the family list and acquires, in two sentences, might, a hunting reputation, a kingdom, several cities, and a proverb. His kingdom begins in Shinar, then reaches Assyria, where Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen are built. After that splendid interruption, the genealogy resumes its orderly march through the peoples descended from Mizraim and Canaan, whose clans are later scattered and whose borders are carefully drawn.

    Shem, Eber, and the divided earthvv. 21–32

    Shem’s line is presented as the line of Eber, passing through Arphaxad and Shelah. Eber’s two sons receive rather different treatment: Joktan receives a long procession of descendants and a territory from Mesha to Sephar, while Peleg receives a name explained by a single, arresting sentence. The chapter ends by gathering every branch back under Noah’s sons: clans, languages, lands, nations, and the spreading-out of the nations after the flood.

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    1. Gen 10:1This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

    2. Gen 10:2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

    3. Gen 10:3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

    4. Gen 10:4And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

    5. Gen 10:5From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

    6. Gen 10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

    7. Gen 10:7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

    8. Gen 10:8Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

    9. Gen 10:9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

    10. Gen 10:10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    11. Gen 10:11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

    12. Gen 10:12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

    13. Gen 10:13Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,

    14. Gen 10:14the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

    15. Gen 10:15And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

    16. Gen 10:16the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

    17. Gen 10:17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

    18. Gen 10:18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,

    19. Gen 10:19and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

    20. Gen 10:20These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

    21. Gen 10:21And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.

    22. Gen 10:22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

    23. Gen 10:23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

    24. Gen 10:24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

    25. Gen 10:25Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

    26. Gen 10:26And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

    27. Gen 10:27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

    28. Gen 10:28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

    29. Gen 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

    30. Gen 10:30Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

    31. Gen 10:31These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

    32. Gen 10:32All 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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    • 251 Chronicles 1:19Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.
    • 10Genesis 11:9That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
    • 2Ezekiel 38:2“Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him
    • 10Genesis 11:2And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
    • 25Genesis 10:32All 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.
    • 32Genesis 9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
    • 2Ezekiel 38:6as well as Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.
    • 14Jeremiah 47:4For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.
    • 23Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
    • 25Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
    • 5Zephaniah 2:11The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
    • 25Luke 3:35–36the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
    • 25Acts 17:26From 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.
    • 1Genesis 2:4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
    • 1Genesis 9:7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
    • 21 Chronicles 1:5–7The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

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