Genesis 10:1

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood.

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In The King James Version

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

In Context

2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tirass.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him:

Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just, perfect man in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 9:7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply thereon.

1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Sheth, Enosh,

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 →

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