Genesis 10:32

³⁰ Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

³¹ These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

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.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
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.
WEB: These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these on the earth after the flood.
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.
DARBY: These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these came the distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.
BLB: These [are] the clans 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.

ÅB: Dette var Noahs sønners slekter etter sin avstamning, i sine folkeslag; og fra dem har folkene utbredt seg på jorden etter vannflommen.
OTB: Dette er familiene til Noahs sønner, etter deres slektshistorier, innenfor deres nasjoner. Fra disse spredte nasjonene seg over jorden etter flommen.
B1930: Dette var Noahs sønners ætter efter sin avstamning, i sine folkeslag; og fra dem har folkene utbredt sig på jorden efter vannflommen.

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Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
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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.
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Genesis 10:1
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
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Genesis 5:29–31
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
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Genesis 10:25
Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.
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Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
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Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
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