Genesis 10:21-32
Legacy Standard Bible
21 Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the [a]older brother of Japheth, children were born. 22 (A)The sons of Shem were (B)Elam and Asshur and (C)Arpachshad and (D)Lud and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram were (E)Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. 24 Arpachshad [b]was the father of (F)Shelah; and Shelah [c]was the father of Eber. 25 (G)Now two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was [d]Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan [e]was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah 27 and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah 28 and [f]Obal and Abimael and Sheba 29 and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
30 Now their [g]settlement [h]extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, by their lands, according to their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, by their nations; and (H)out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.
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- Genesis 10:21 Or the brother of Japheth the elder
- Genesis 10:24 Lit begot
- Genesis 10:24 Lit begot
- Genesis 10:25 Lit division
- Genesis 10:26 Lit begot
- Genesis 10:28 In 1 Chr 1:22, Ebal
- Genesis 10:30 Lit dwelling
- Genesis 10:30 Lit was
Genesis 10:21-32
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Descendants of Shem
21 Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth,[a] the father of all the descendants of Eber.
22 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.[b]
24 Arphaxad became the father of Shelah.[c] Shelah became the father of Eber. 25 To Eber two sons were born. The name of one was Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided.[d]
Eber’s brother’s name was Joktan. 26 Joktan became the father of 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 Their dwelling was from Mesha all the way to Sephar, in the hill country of the east.
31 These were the descendants of Shem according to their ethnic groups, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
32 These are the families and groups of peoples descended from the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations. From these, nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
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- Genesis 10:21 Or whose older brother was Japheth, but this translation does not fit the Hebrew construction as well as the translation above does.
- Genesis 10:23 The Greek text and 1 Chronicles 1:17 read Meshek.
- Genesis 10:24 Some manuscripts of the Greek Old Testament have an extra generation (Cainan or Kenan) between Arphaxad and Shelah. See the note on Genesis 11:13.
- Genesis 10:25 Peleg means division.
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