These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.
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These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.
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These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
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These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
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- Genesis 10:5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
- Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.
- Acts 17:26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain These are the sons of Shem,.... His sons, and…
These are the sons of Shem,.... His sons, and grandsons, and great grandsons, in all twenty six, no doubt but there were many more, but these are only mentioned; for none of the sons of Elam, Ashur, and Lud, are named, and but one of Arphaxad's, and one of Salah's, and two of Eber's, and none of Peleg's; when it is not to be questioned but they had many, as is certain of Arphaxad, Salah, Eber, and Peleg, Gen 11:13.
after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations: from hence sprung various families at first, and these of different languages upon the confusion of Babel, which thenceforward formed different nations, dwelt in different lands; which have been pointed at as near as we can at this distance, and with the little helps and advantages we have: it seems from hence that Shem's posterity were of different languages as well as those of Ham and Japheth.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 31. These are, &c.] Cf. Gen_10:5; Gen_10:20.
31. These are, &c.] Cf. Gen_10:5; Gen_10:20.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 31, 32. These are the sons of Shorn,…
Vers. 31, 32. These are the sons of Shorn, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. The pedigree of the Shemite tribes is closed with the customary formula (vide ver. 5); that which follows being the concluding formula for the entire table of nations.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations (literally, according to their Tholdoth, or historical developments), in their nation,: and by these (literally, from the) were the nations divided (or, did the nations scatter themselves) in the earth after the flood.
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