Genesis 10:1
This story is about Shem, Ham and Jay-feth, the sons of Noah. It is a list of the children that were born after the flood.
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In The King James Version
In Context
2Jay-feth's sons were named Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Me-shek and Tiras.
Cross References
Genesis 5:1This is the story of Adam's family. When God made people, he made them to be like himself.
Genesis 6:9This is the story about Noah and his family. Noah was a good man. At that time, Noah was the only man on the earth that lived God's way and so God was really happy with him.
Genesis 9:7But you Noah and your family, I want you to have a lot of children so that the earth is full of people again.”
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 →