Genesis 10

In which we start to learn about Noah's descendents.  Okay, I don't have much to say about this chapter.  It's just a family tree, again mentioning only the sons, and locations where they went to dwell.  It is the same one-dimensional thinking that whole societies of people are descendents from a single individual.  It's kind of like a popularity contest, where each tribe hopes to see their name mentioned and their lineage to Noah (and thus Adam & Eve) confirmed.  But it's all just fiction anyway.



Commentary
Skeptic's Annotated Bible

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.
10:2  The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3  And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4  And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
10:5  By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

"...after his tongue" implies multiple languages, but we haven't gotten to the Tower of Babel story yet.

10:6  And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
10:7  And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
10:8  And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
10:9  He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
10:10  And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11  Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
10:12  And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
10:13  And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
10:14  And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
10:15  And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
10:16  And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
10:17  And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
10:18  And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
10:19  And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
10:20  These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
10:21  Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
10:22  The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
10:23  And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
10:24  And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
10:25  And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
10:26  And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
10:27  And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
10:28  And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
10:29  And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
10:30  And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
10:31  These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
10:32  These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

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