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Genesis 10:32

in Genesis 10

All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

KJV

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.

This verse in Genesis 10

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the clans of Noah’s sons

The names have been counted at seventy since antiquity, and seventy is the number of Jacob's house going down into Egypt at 46:27. Every people on earth is traced to one family. Paul stands on that at Athens, that God made every nation of men from one, at Acts 17:26.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron) · Written before 735.

proposed

These are the families of Noah according to their peoples and nations. From these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations,....

A commentator

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

proposed

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations,....

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֵ֣לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • מִשְׁפְּחֹ֧ת[were] [the] clans of

    mishpechotH4940 →303 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] sons of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • נֹ֛חַNoah

    noachH5146 →46 times

  • לְתוֹלְדֹתָ֖םto descendants their

    letoldotamH8435 →39 times

  • בְּגוֹיֵהֶ֑םin nations their

    begoyehemH1471 →561 times

  • וּמֵאֵ֜לֶּהand from these

    umeelehH428 →746 times

  • נִפְרְד֧וּthey separated

    nifreduH6504 →26 times

  • הַגּוֹיִ֛םthe nations

    hagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • בָּאָ֖רֶץon the earth

    baaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אַחַ֥רafter

    ʾacharH310 →715 times

  • הַמַּבּֽוּל׃ פthe flood

    hamabulH3999 →13 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • 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.

    it 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 9:1

    And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 1:28

      God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 9:7

      But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 8:17

      Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.

This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.