CHAP. X.
1, The generations of Noes three sonnes after the Flood. 2, The sons of Iaphet: 6; The sonnes of Cham: 8, amongst whom is Nimrod, the mighty hunter, and King; 15, and the twelve families of Canaan, 19, the borders of their land. 21, The sonnes of Sem, father of the Hebrewes.
ANd these are the generations of the [unspec 1] sonnes of Noe; Sem, Cham, and Ia∣pheth: and unto them were borne sons after, the Flood. The sonnes of Iapheth, [unspec 2] Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iavan, & Th〈…〉〈…〉 and Meshec, and Thiras. And the sons of Gomer, Ascanaz, and Riphath, and [unspec 3] Thoga〈…〉〈…〉. And the sons of Iavan, Elisa and [unspec 4] [unspec 5] Tharsis, Kitim, and Dodanim. Of these were the Iles of the nations divided, in their lands; every man after his tongue; after their families in their nations.
And the sonnes of Cham; Cush and Miz∣raim, [unspec 6] [unspec 7] and Phut and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah and Regmah and Sabtaca: and the sonnes of Regmah, Sheba and Dedan. And Cush be∣gat [unspec 8] Nimrod: he began to be a mighty-one, in the earth. He was mighty in hunting, be∣fore [unspec 9] Iehovah: therefore it is said; As Nim∣rod, mighty in hunting, before Iehovah. And the beginning of his Kingdome was Ba∣bylon; [unspec 10] and Erech, and Acad and Chalneh: in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went-forth [unspec 11] Assur: and hee builded Niniveh, and Rechoboth the citie, and Calach. And Re∣sen, [unspec 12] betweene Niniveh and Calach: the same is a great City. And Mizraim, begat the Lu∣dims, [unspec 13] and the Anamims, and the Lehabims, and the Naphthuchims. And the Pathru∣fims, [unspec 14] and the Casluchims, (from whence came out the Philistims,) and the Caph∣thorims.
And Canaan, hee begat Sidon his first-borne, [unspec 15] [unspec 16] [unspec 17] [unspec 18] and Cheth. And the Iebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite. And the Evite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite. And the Ar∣vadite, and the Samarite, and the Chama∣thite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spred abroad. And the border of [unspec 19] the Canaanite was from Sidon; as thou commest to Gerar, unto Gaza: as thou commest to Sodom and Gomorrha, & Ad∣mah, and Seboim, unto Lashah. These are [unspec 20] the sonnes of Cham; after their families, af∣ter their tongues: in their lands, in their nations.
And there was borne also to Sem himself: [unspec 21] the father of all the sonnes of Heber; the brother of Iapheth, the elder. The Ionnes [unspec 22] of Sem, Elam, and Assur: and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram: [unspec 23] [unspec 24] Vz and Chul, and Gether and Mash. And Arphaxad begat Salah: and Salah begat He∣ber. And unto Heber were borne two sons: [unspec 25] the name of the one Phaleg, for in his dayes was the earth divided; and the name of his brother, Ioktan. And Ioktan begat Almo∣dad, [unspec 26] and Saleph: and Chasarmaveth, and Ia∣rach. And Hadoram and Vzal, and Diklah. [unspec 27] [unspec 28] [unspec 29] [unspec 30] And Obal, and Abimael and Sheba. And Ophir and Chavilah, and Iobab: all these, were sons of Ioktan. And their dwelling was from Mesha: as thou goest to Sephar, a mount of the east. These are the sonnes of [unspec 31] Sem; after their families, after their tongues: in their lands, after their nations. These are [unspec 32] the families of the sonnes of Noe, after their generations, in their nations: and from these were the nations divided, in the earth, after the Flood.
Annotations.
THe generations] that is, the children begotten [unspec 1] of Noes three sonnes: by whom three parts of the world were inhabited; Asia by Sems posterity; Africa by Chams; and part of Europe, with Asia the lesse, by Iaphets.