Genesis 10:1
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
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2The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Cross References
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
Genesis 6:9This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 9:7Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.”
1 Chronicles 1:1Adam, Seth, Enosh,
Matthew 1:1The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
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 →