Genesis 10:31

These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.

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In The King James Version

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

In Context

30And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the east.

32These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:20All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 10:22-32

21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. 22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. 24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. 25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and… Read the whole commentary →

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