Genesis 10:5
From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.
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4And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.
6And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
Cross References
Genesis 9:19These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.
Genesis 10:25And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 11:1And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
Genesis 11:9So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
Esther 10:1And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 11:11And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 10:2-6
The Generations of Noah. ( b. c. 2347.) 1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their… Read the whole commentary →