Genesis 10:1-32
Nations Descended from Noah (1 Chr. 1:5–27)
1 Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtechah; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (that is the principal city).
13 Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim).
15 Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth; 16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite; 17 the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite; 18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed. 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20 These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands and in their nations.
21 And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder. 22 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arphaxad begot Salah, and Salah begot Eber. 25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling place was from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. 31 These were the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
32 These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
The descendants of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth after the flood are recorded here to trace the restart of the human race and God’s channel of redemption through the people He chose to escape judgment. The sons of Japheth settled along the coast to establish nations there, while those of Ham included the mighty hunter Nimrod and the infamous cities of Babel and Nineveh. Most noteworthy among Ham’s descendants was Canaan whose descendants would later be routed out of the promised land due to their immortality and idolatry in the land they occupied. The sons of Shem settled in the east. Each son’s tribe settled separately “according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.” Yet though they had their own languages, still they had a common language which they shared that eventually brought pride to them all before their fall in the next chapter of this account of God’s people and plan of redemption leading to the Messiah to crush the serpent in the end. These families of Noah’s descendants filled the earth in obedience to the command to be fruitful and multiply as originally mandated to Adam (Genesis 1:22, 28) and reiterated to Noah (Genesis 8:17) after disembarking the Ark of deliverance from destruction. We who are in Christ now who have descended spiritually through the lineage of the second Adam are called in a similar manner to go and make spiritual descendants called disciples (Matthew 28:19-20) of the Lord to fill heaven with offspring of the Father and restore the relationship with our Father in heaven in Him as one family (Ephesians 3:14-15) in Him. The physical generations are therefore a template and foundation of the Church, a channel of redemption for we the people of God chosen and called out from the corruption of sin into the righteousness of Him who rescues us from judgment and redeems us as His own by an unbreakable covenant of grace.
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