Genesis 10:5
All of the people that came from Jay-feth had families and they ended up being different tribes. Every tribe had their own language and their own country. Some of these tribes lived in country next to the Mediterranean Sea.
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In The King James Version
In Context
4Javan's sons were named Elishah, Tar-shish, Kittim and Rod-anim.
6Ham's sons were Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
Cross References
Genesis 10:25Eber had 2 sons. The first son was Peleg and his younger brother was Joktan. The name Peleg means split up. And Peleg was still alive when all the people split up into different tribes and went all over the world.
Genesis 11:1Right from the time Noah and his family came out of the really big boat called the Ark, everyone talked the same language.
Genesis 11:9The town was called Babel or Babylon and those names sound like a word that means mixed up. That is where God mixed up the languages and forced everyone to leave Babylon and go to live in different places all over the world.
Esther 10:1King Zerk-sees said that everybody in every part of his country had to pay tax money.
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 →