10 1 The increase of mankind by Noah and his sons. 10 The beginning of cities, countries, and nations.

Now these are the [a]generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth: unto whom sons were born after the flood.

The sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and [b]Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

And the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 10:1 These generations are here recited, partly to declare the marvelous increase in so small a time, and also to set forth their great forgetfulness of God’s grace towards their fathers.
  2. Genesis 10:2 Of Madai and Javan came the Medes, and Greeks.

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