Genesis 10:31 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 10:31

These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

KJV

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

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Commentary

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Josephus

Antiquities of the Jews - Book I, Chapter 6, Sections 4 (100)

Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean. For Elam left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֵ֣לֶּה	'E.leh	these	H428 →
בְנֵי־	ve.nei-	[were] [the] sons of	H1121 →
שֵׁ֔ם	Shem	Shem	H8035 →
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם	le.mish.pe.cho.Tam	to clans their	H4940 →
לִלְשֹׁנֹתָ֑ם	lil.sho.no.Tam	to languages their	H3956 →
בְּאַרְצֹתָ֖ם	be.'ar.tzo.Tam	in lands their	H776 →
לְגוֹיֵהֶֽם׃	le.go.ye.Hem	to nations their	H1471 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 17:26
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:7–8
  Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
- Genesis 3:20
  And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
- Malachi 2:10
  Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
- Romans 5:12–19
  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
- 1 Corinthians 15:22
  For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Through
Genesis 10:5
From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.
leads to
- Zephaniah 2:11
  The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
- Jeremiah 2:10
  Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:
- Isaiah 42:4
  He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

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