Genesis 10:1
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
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2The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
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Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
Genesis 9:7And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.
1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh;
Matthew 1:1The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 10:1
This chapter shows more particularly what was said in general ( ch. ix. 19 ), concerning the three sons of Noah, that "of them was the whole earth overspread;" and the fruit of that blessing ( ch. ix. 1 , 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… Read the whole commentary →